- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About The Editor
- Contributors
- Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
- Ostracism and Stages of Coping
- Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion
- The Multi-Motive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences
- Social Exclusion of Individuals through Interpersonal Discrimination
- Theory and Research on Social Exclusion in Work Groups
- The Dark Side of Divorce
- The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships
- Peer Rejection among Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Reactions, and Maladaptive Pathways
- Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox
- How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection
- Social Rejection Reduces Intelligent Thought and Self-Regulation
- Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion
- Why Rejection Hurts: The Neuroscience of Social Pain
- Social Pain
- Perceived Social Isolation within Personal and Evolutionary Timescales
- The Social Stigma of Identity- and Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity
- Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection
- Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Challenges of Social Exclusion
- Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups
- Social Connection and Seeing Human
- Attentional Retraining for Anxiety
- Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion
- Belonging Regulation through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates
- The Birth and Death of Belonging
- Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Although people often describe experiences of social rejection as being “painful,” one is left to wonder whether these descriptions are primarily metaphorical or whether there is something truly painful about rejection experiences. This chapter reviews accumulating evidence showing that social pain—the painful feelings following social rejection, exclusion, or loss—relies on some of the same neural circuitry that is involved in processing physical pain. Moreover, building on this overlap in the neural circuitry underlying physical and social pain, this chapter reviews several consequences of this shared circuitry. Specifically, evidence is reviewed to show: (1) that individuals who are more sensitive to one kind of pain are also more sensitive to the other and (2) that factors that typically alter one type of pain (e.g., Tylenol reduces physical pain) can alter the other as well (e.g., Tylenol reduces social pain). Other possible consequences of this shared neural circuitry are discussed.
Keywords: anterior insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, fmri, neuroimaging, physical pain, social exclusion, social neuroscience, social pain, social rejection
Naomi I. Eisenberger, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About The Editor
- Contributors
- Emerging Perspectives on the Study of Social Exclusion
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
- Ostracism and Stages of Coping
- Driven to Exclude: How Core Social Motives Explain Social Exclusion
- The Multi-Motive Model of Responses to Rejection-Related Experiences
- Social Exclusion of Individuals through Interpersonal Discrimination
- Theory and Research on Social Exclusion in Work Groups
- The Dark Side of Divorce
- The Importance of Feeling Valued: Perceived Regard in Romantic Relationships
- Peer Rejection among Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Reactions, and Maladaptive Pathways
- Rejection and Aggression: Explaining the Paradox
- How and When Exclusion Motivates Social Reconnection
- Social Rejection Reduces Intelligent Thought and Self-Regulation
- Cortisol Responses to Social Exclusion
- Why Rejection Hurts: The Neuroscience of Social Pain
- Social Pain
- Perceived Social Isolation within Personal and Evolutionary Timescales
- The Social Stigma of Identity- and Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity
- Depression and Suicide: Transactional Relations with Rejection
- Individual Differences in Responses to Social Exclusion: Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Self-Compassion
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the Challenges of Social Exclusion
- Attachment Orientations and Reactions to Ostracism in Close Relationships and Groups
- Social Connection and Seeing Human
- Attentional Retraining for Anxiety
- Behavioral Mimicry as an Affiliative Response to Social Exclusion
- Belonging Regulation through the Use of (Para)social Surrogates
- The Birth and Death of Belonging
- Looking Back and Forward: Lessons Learned and Moving Ahead
- Index
