“Nothing takes the style out of peanut butter fairly like unrequited love,” Charlie Brown as soon as mentioned. Certainly, being spurned by one’s crush, or, for that matter, by a buddy or potential employer, not solely ruins the style of 1’s favourite sandwich unfold, however causes nice psychological misery and even bodily ache.
Right here to stroll us by way of one among life’s worst emotions is Mark Leary, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke College, and the editor of Interpersonal Rejection. Right now on the present, Mark unpacks the expertise of social rejection, together with why we’re so delicate to it and the feelings and behaviors it causes, which may be optimistic and prosocial or maladaptive and even violent. We focus on the function that’s performed by the sociometer, an idea Mark originated, in monitoring our social acceptance and rejection and what influences its sensitivity to fluctuations in your relational worth. And Mark gives recommendation on find out how to take away among the sting of rejection and civilly reject others.
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