Experiences of social rejection, exclusion or loss are generally considered to be some of the
most'painful'experiences that we endure. Indeed, many of us go to great lengths to avoid …

Experiences of social rejection or loss have been described as some of the most “painful”
experiences that we, as humans, face and perhaps for good reason. Because of our …

Stress is present in everyday life in various forms and situations. Two stressors frequently
investigated are physiological and psychosocial stress. Besides similar subjective and …

Emerging evidence has shown that social pain—the painful feelings that follow from social
rejection, exclusion, or loss—relies on some of the same neural regions that process …

Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience high levels of anxiety. A
widely used measure for typically developing children is the Revised Child Anxiety and …

Adolescence is a period of major risk for depression, which is associated with negative
personal, social, and educational outcomes. Yet, in comparison to adult models of …

Many functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have explored the neural correlates of
social pain that results from social threat, exclusion, rejection, loss or negative evaluation …

Social exclusion refers to the experience of being disregarded or rejected by others and has
wide-ranging negative consequences for well-being and cognition. Cyberball, a game …

The endogenous opioid system, which alleviates physical pain, is also known to regulate
social distress and reward in animal models. To test this hypothesis in humans (n= 18), we …

Sensitivity to social evaluation has been proposed as a potential marker or risk factor for
depression, and has also been theorized to increase with pubertal maturation. This study …