heart break illustration

Pain of rejection really hurts, just like physical pain. A recent study found the same parts of the brain get activated when feeling rejected from love as when physically burned. The study involved 40 recently dumped heartbroken people, putting them in an MRI, had them stare at a picture of their ex, and took some […]

Gender differences with anxiety

With half of all marriages ending in divorce, everyone wants to know what makes a marriage last. One of the main factors appears to be in how couples handle conflict. While it doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that fighting and yelling will destroy a relationship, research also found that avoiding conflict doesn’t preserve […]

Everyone has been rejected or felt left out at one time or another. It happens all the time. But did you know that the feeling of exclusion from a person or group can cause you to buy odd things? Case in point: new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research states that people who […]