March 31, 2011
Blurb
Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection “hurt” in the same way, a new study conducted at Columbia University shows. The results, published in the March 28 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painful sensory experiences are activated during intense experiences of social rejection.
“We went beyond previous studies of rejection by using a more powerful means of inducing feelings of rejection,” said Edward Smith, the study’s communicating author, professor of psychology at Columbia and director of the division of cognitive neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
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http://news.columbia.edu/research/2370
“We went beyond previous studies of rejection by using a more powerful means of inducing feelings of rejection,” said Edward Smith, the study’s communicating author, professor of psychology at Columbia and director of the division of cognitive neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Read more at:
http://news.columbia.edu/research/2370