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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 1-15Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.1.1
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social exclusion; rejection; emotion; affective forecasting; empathy
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Prior findings of emotional numbness (rather than distress) among socially excluded persons led the authors to investigate whether exclusion causes a far-reaching insensitivity to both physical and emotional pain. Experiments 1-4 showed that receiving an ostensibly diagnostic forecast of a lonesome future life reduced sensitivity to physical pain, as indicated by both (higher) thresholds and tolerance. Exclusion also caused emotional insensitivity, as indicated by reductions in affective forecasting of joy or woe over a future football outcome (Experiment 3), as well as lesser empathizing with another person's suffering from either romantic breakup (Experiment 4) or a broken leg (Experiment 5). The insensitivities to pain and emotion were highly intercorrelated.
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