Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5643, 2003, Pages 290-292

  Eisenberger, Naomi I ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a   Williams, Kipling D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

NEUROIMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0141924546     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089134     Document Type: Article

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