The pain of social disconnection: examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain

By Naomi I. Eisenberger. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Bullying in schools: the power of bullies and the plight of victims. (2014, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. PS65CH07-Juvonen ARI 31 October 2013 9:53 handling the negative emotions associated with social exclusion (see review in Eisenberger 2012).”
Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, neutral): “Early stages of opiate addiction and intense relationships both involve euphoria, with feelings of pleasure and gratification leading to a desire to continuously seek out the stimulus (Machin & Dunbar 2011; Eisenberger 2012).”
From Stress to Inflammation and Major Depressive Disorder: A Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression (2014, background): “Although the manner by which these brain regions regulate inflammation is complex (Pavlov & Tracey, 2004), the anterior insula and dACC are key nodes in a network of brain regions known to be engaged during experiences of physical pain (Eisenberger, 2012a, 2012b).”
Introduction to Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPARTheory) and Evidence (2016, background): “…fact, brain imaging (fMRI) studies reveal that specific parts of the brain shown in Figure 5 tend to be activated when people feel rejected, just as they are when people experience physical pain (Eisenberger, 2012a, 2012b, 2015; Eisenberger & Lieberman, 2004; Eisenberger et al., 2003; Karos, 2018.”
Why Do People Hurt Themselves? A New Conceptual Model of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (2018, background): “Given this overlap, factors that affect physical pain incidentally affect emotional pain (see Eisenberger, 2012, 2015).”
Invisible at Work (2013, background): “However, past research has shown that ostracism can be a uniquely painful experience; the social pain caused by ostracism has even been likened to physical pain (eisenberger, 2012; Riva, Wirth, & Williams, 2011).”
The Biological Underpinnings of Peer Victimization: Understanding Why and How the Effects of Bullying Can Last a Lifetime (2013, background): “In describing the social and emotional pain that he continued to experience long after the bullying had ceased, Tomlin’s metaphor, “beating me with a stick,” is consistent with how social pain is described by people around the world (Eisenberger, 2012).”
How Biology Became Social, and What it Means for Social Theory (2014, background): “…to light, respectively, how (1) positive social interactions and altruism may be experienced as rewarding and pleasant in the brain (Moll et al., 2006; Lozada et al., 2011) and how (2) the experience of social rejection and isolation is analogous to the experience of pain (Eisenberger, 2012).”
Psychobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Social Buffering of the HPA Axis: A Review of Animal Models and Human Studies across Development (2013, background): “…actual or potential tissue damage” (International Association for the Study of Pain, 1994, p. 209), whereas social pain has been defined as “the unpleasant experience that is associated with actual or potential damage to one’s sense of social connection or social value” (Eisenberger, 2012, p. 421).”