Sticks and stones: A new study on social pain

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Sticks and stones: A new study on social pain

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/afps-sas082708.php
Scanned by: Mielle Sullivan 4 months ago

According to some researchers, words may pack a harder punch that we realize. Psychologists Zhansheng Chen and Kipling D. Williams of Purdue University, Julie Fitness of Macquarie University, and Nicola C. Newton of the University of New South Wales found that the pain of physical events may fade with time, while the pain of social occurrences can be re-instantiated through memory retrievals.