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The brain hates rejection so much it treats it like physical pain. Evolution said “stay in the tribe,” anxiety said “forever.”

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Brain imaging studies suggest social rejection activates regions also involved in physical pain, though this overlap is debated. The evolutionary explanation about group belonging is widely proposed, and the anxiety line is a joke.

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