Social Acceptance and Rejection: The Sweet and the Bitter. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 2011; 20 (4): 256 DOI: 10.1177/0963721411417545 Cite This Page : ...

How the brain responds to social acceptance, rejection. Each round gave two types of feedback: whether the participant successfully matched with a Decider (a rewarding outcome) ...

At age 6, the researchers assessed parental acceptance and rejection, parents’ relationship quality, parents’ social support, as well as the observed and parent-reported negative affect of the ...

Adolescents are extremely sensitive to acceptance and rejection on social media because their prefrontal cortex, which helps guide behavior and emotional responses, is still developing.

Humans rely on acceptance into groups and intimate relationships for survival and emotional well being. Threats to this need, such as social rejection (i.e., being excluded or not liked by others ...

The study concluded that “social rejection and physical pain are similar not only in that they are both distressing, they share a common representation in somatosensory brain systems as well.” The ...

For proof that rejection, exclusion, and acceptance are central to our lives, look no farther than the living room, says Nathan Dewall, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky. "If you turn ...

How the brain responds to social acceptance, rejection. Each round gave two types of feedback: whether the participant successfully matched with a Decider (a rewarding outcome) ...

Most of us are, to a certain extent, afraid of rejection. But for some, this fear can be debilitating. New research forthcoming in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science explores ...