Posted by Jost on October 4, 2006, at 18:13:01
In reply to Re: Blocks and other forms of exclusion hurt, posted by SLS on October 4, 2006, at 17:47:18
"Dr Jaak Panksepp, from the Centre for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said that feelings of social exclusion were powerful instincts in animals and humans.
He said: "The feelings induced by experimental games in the laboratory, are a pale shadow of the real-life feelings that humans and other animals experience in response to the sudden loss of social support. "
Not to quibble but isn't the last a bit of an unproven assertion? Maybe laboratories intensify feelings?
I mean maybe if you lose all social support-- but if you're excluded from a game of ping-pong? :)
Jost
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