We Feel Hurt Even When Strangers Ignore Us, Study Shows
Huffington Post:
No one likes feeling left out, and a new study shows that even being ignored by a stranger hurts.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, is based on the idea that people need to feel connected to be happy, and that a person can be negatively affected when even a stranger doesn’t acknowledge his or her presence, researchers said.
To test this idea, researchers from Purdue University, Ohio University and the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Argentina conducted a study that involved making eye contact with passers-by.
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