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Feeling Betrayed By a Family Member? Here’s How To Cope
Social rejection by someone close to you can feel as acute as physical pain. If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical pain share the same neural circuitry in the brain, according to research by Naomi Eisenberger, a professor of social psychology at UCLA. From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes sense: As social animals, we benefit from avoiding rejection. “To the extent that social rejection or exclusion is a threat to survival, feeling ‘hurt’ by these experiences may be an adaptive way to prevent them,” Eisenberger wrote. ... Write a letter but don’t send it.
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Call for Nominations: 2026 John J. Carty Award In the Social Sciences
Nominations must be submitted online by Monday, October 6, 2025 and include, a letter describing the candidate’s work and why they should receive the award; the nominee’s curriculum vitae, and a list of the nominees most significant publications.
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Do You Live In a ‘Lonelygenic Environment’? Being In Nature May Help
Loneliness has become a global public health concern. Countries including the United Kingdom and Japan have appointed “ministers of loneliness” to help tackle the problem. In the United States, then-Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued a public health advisory on loneliness, stating that the risk for premature death from loneliness is akin to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. ... “There is some evidence that those who spend time in nature are less likely to report being lonely,” said Julianne Holt-Lunstad, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University.
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The Growing Belief in ‘Love at First Sight’
The idea seems so old-fashioned, so sentimental: that you could fall for someone “at first sight,” deeply and instantly. It’s straight out of the classic romance dramas—Jack’s gaze freezing when he sees Rose on the Titanic’s deck; The Notebook’s Noah lighting up and asking, “Who’s this girl?” when he spies Allie across the amusement park. As a general rule, the stuff of popular love stories is not the stuff of real life. We know this, right? ... But once Gesselman stepped back and thought about the finding, she said, it made some sense to her. In 2014, dating apps were relatively new.
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How Dance Develops In Children
A new review explores how dance develops in early childhood and how studying the emergence of dance can reveal the development of auditory perception and musical memory.
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Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation With Arturo Hernandez
Arturo Hernandez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston and editor for Perspectives on Psychological Science, joins Under the Cortex to reflect on the dynamic relationship between scientific discovery and scientific communication.
