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from the darwinism dept. According to this UCLA press release, researchers Matthew Lieberman and Naomi Eisenberger have discovered the true source of a "broken heart" and "hurt feelings". Their study involved a multiplayer game while the subjects were in an fMRI. Some participants were occasionally excluded, unbeknownst to them, to provide a feeling of being a social outcast. The MRI showed activation of areas of the brain commonly associated with physical pain.
"There are various things in the world that humans need in order to survive, and the ones we typically think of are to avoid physical harm," says senior study author Matthew Lieberman, an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA. "For human beings and mammals more generally, being socially connected is just as important. You are more likely to die as a result of social exclusion than of physical pain." Naomi Eisenberger, a graduate student at UCLA, was the lead author of the paper.
This story has been picked up by a number of sources, from Fox News to Discovery, with the UK's Guardian weighing in on the facts behind the story. < | >
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Social Rejection is a Pain
