Pain of Rejection All Too Real

twifkak · 10-13-2003, 07:38 AM

A study links the feeling of rejection to activity in the anterior cingulate cortex:

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At first, the students were told they could only observe the game. Their computer-generated playmates, which the subjects believed were controlled by unseen people, then began throwing to them. But after about 40 throws, the other players began ignoring the subject with no explanation. The researchers found that this exclusion caused activity in a region of the brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC. In addition, students who reported feeling the most distress from being snubbed showed the greatest activity in this brain region, which is also involved in pain processing.

FWIW, a comment on /. also claims that the ACC has something to do with anal sex...

PTDC · 10-13-2003, 11:25 AM

Yeah, being ignored or rejected really does hurt. Don't need some scientific study to tell you that.

LauraMac · 10-13-2003, 12:05 PM

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FWIW, a comment on

Aha this might explain the paradox that women have more stress related problems with alien abductions than males Hmmmmmm

remixor · 10-13-2003, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by PTDC

Yeah, being ignored or rejected really does hurt. Don't need some scientific study to tell you that.

Yeah, but now when people say "Get over it!" you can be all "Hey, man, this is my anterior cingulate cortex here! Give me a break!"

SamandMax · 10-13-2003, 04:51 PM

Did they really need to do a test that revealed getting rejected makes you feel bad?

They're probably doing a study now that getting punched causes pain.

twifkak · 10-13-2003, 04:54 PM

I think the point is that rejection shares more with getting punched than previously thought.

remixor · 10-13-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SamandMax

Did they really need to do a test that revealed getting rejected makes you feel bad?

They're probably doing a study now that getting punched causes pain.

That's not a good analogy; it would be more comparable to a study determining WHY getting punched causes pain. I think studies like this are quite interesting and useful. They didn't reveal that "getting rejected makes you feel bad", they uncovered a surprising parallel that I can't imagine would have been otherwise obvious to most people.

DomStLeger · 10-14-2003, 12:00 AM

Just a little nit picking here, the study only used 13 students which is not enough to draw any real solid conclusions, whatever they did with the data. But interesting non the less.

twifkak · 10-14-2003, 01:46 AM

Good point, Dom. I imagine they just didn't have the munny to rent the MRI for longer.

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10-14-2003, 01:46 AM	#9
twifkak :P ^^^ at tamz Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Football Town, USA Posts: 1,354	Good point, Dom. I imagine they just didn't have the munny to rent the MRI for longer. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ In the next AG crash ___\| A temporary board ____\| I am born to spam In the "Get New" list __\| Scrolling up and down \| I am born to spam through a broadband ISP \| i am back to steal your bandwidth --Spammo-head, "Windbag"

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