emotional pain. ADVERTISEMENT On the surface, why does rejection hurt? Well, that’s because it’s meant to. The human mind and body naturally react in this manner to rejection.
Here’s why and how:Brain scans in studies have shown that when you experience rejection, the part of your brain that lights up is the same as activated when you feel physical pain.
In other words, the reason that rejection hurts on a physical level, simply put, is because the brain feels it as physical pain!Social pain is a different kind of pain than generic emotional pain, and rejection is a type of social pain.
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