Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain

By Ethan Kross, Marc G. Berman, Walter Mischel, Edward E. Smith, Tor D. Wager. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Being Left Out: Neurobiological Correlates of Social Rejection and their Developmental Trajectory (2011, neutral): “Mounting evidence from brain imaging studies indicates that social exclusion shares a common neural circuitry with physical pain, including the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), insula and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) (e.g., DeWall et al., 2010; Eisenberger et al., 2003; Eisenb”
Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults (2013, background): “The human need for social connection is well established, as are the benefits that people derive from such connections [30–34].”
Fear of missing out: Relationships with depression, mindfulness, and physical symptoms. (2016, background): “Social pain has been proposed to have common neural correlates (Eisenberger et al., 2003) and somatic experiences as physical pain (Kross et al., 2011).”