PlumX Metrics
Embed PlumX Metrics

Emotional responses to interpersonal rejection

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, ISSN: 1958-5969, Vol: 17, Issue: 4, Page: 435-441
2015
  • 100
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 278
    Captures
  • 6
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    100
    • Citation Indexes
      100
  • Captures
    278
  • Mentions
    6
    • News Mentions
      5
      • News
        5
    • References
      1
      • Wikipedia
        1

Most Recent News

7 Signs You're Lovesick

Feelings of lovesickness can be both mental and physical. There’s no clinical definition, but lovesickness usually represents how the body responds to feelings in the

Article Description

A great deal of human emotion arises in response to real, anticipated, remembered, or imagined rejection by other people. Because acceptance by other people improved evolutionary fitness, human beings developed biopsychological mechanisms to apprise them of threats to acceptance and belonging, along with emotional systems to deal with threats to acceptance. This article examines seven emotions that often arise when people perceive that their relational value to other people is low or in potential jeopardy, including hurt feelings, jealousy, loneliness, shame, guilt, social anxiety, and embarrassment. Other emotions, such as sadness and anger, may occur during rejection episodes, but are reactions to features of the situation other than low relational value. The article discusses the evolutionary functions of rejectionrelated emotions, neuroscience evidence regarding the brain regions that mediate reactions to rejection, and behavioral research from social, developmental, and clinical psychology regarding psychological and behavioral concomitants of interpersonal rejection.

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know