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Social pain Vs Physical Pain
Why are our brains built in such a way that a broken heart can feel as painful as a broken leg?
When someone says, “He broke my heart,” we understand this as a metaphor. No one mistakes this for a medical emergency.
Physical and social pain seems as if they are worlds apart. Every time I experience a physical pain, I can point to a place on my body where I am feeling the pain; presumably, there is some kind of disturbance or tissue damage at the spot where the pain is coming from. When I feel social pain, where should I point to?
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The 1950's Experiment on Monkeys
Newborn monkeys were raised apart from their mothers. Substituting for the mother were two surrogate “monkeys”. One surrogate was a wire-mesh frame that was constructed roughly in the shape of an adult monkey and that provided the milk the newborns needed for survival. The other surrogate was a w...
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The 1950's Experiment on Monkeys: The Result
Which surrogate did the infants became more attached to: the one associated with nourishment or the one that felt a little more like a real mother monkey?
Soon after birth, infant monkeys were spending nearly 18 hours a day in contact with the cloth monkey and almost no time at all with th...
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We Form Attachments
A second piece of evidence that social pain is real pain is the separation distress that mammalian infants show when separated from their primary caregivers. Observe the intense and relentless crying and distress that can occur when a mother leaves her child. Each of us is born with an attachment...
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The Language We Use
One of the obvious hints that social pain is similar to physical pain is the language we use to talk about social pain. Most of the words we use to describe feelings of social rejection or loss involve the language of physical pain. We say, “She broke my heart,” or “He hurt my feelings,” or that ...
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If I wasn't so much of a procrastinator I probably would get through a lot more books. If I wasn't so much of a perfectionist I probably would complete more of my work. In a nutshell I'm a pretty problematic individual!
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