Research explains the evolutionary underpinnings of why being rejected can hurt so bad. A 2023 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology examined how two types of social ...
Back in the 1990s, researchers developed a construct related to the heightened sensitivity that some individuals feel around the experience of being rejected. Downey, Bonica, and Rincon (1998) ...
Rejection hurts. There’s really no way around it. Most people want to belong and connect with others, especially people they care about. Feeling rejected by those people and believing you aren’t ...
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