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When hurt will not heal: exploring the capacity to relive social and physical pain.

by: Zhansheng Chen, Kipling D. Williams, Julie Fitness, Nicola C. Newton
Psychological science, Vol. 19, No. 8. (01 August 2008), pp. 789-795, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02158.x  Key: citeulike:3175666

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Recent discoveries suggest that social pain is as real and intense as physical pain, and that the social-pain system may have piggybacked on the brain structure that had evolved earlier for physical pain. The present study examined an important distinction between social and physical pain: Individuals can relive and reexperience social pain more easily and more intensely than physical pain. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people reported higher levels of pain after reliving a past socially painful event than after reliving a past physically painful event. Studies 3 and 4 found, in addition, that people performed worse on cognitively demanding tasks after they relived social rather than physical pain. Implications for research on social pain and theories about social pain are discussed.


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