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Social pain : neuropsychological and health implications of loss and exclusion

Being left out of a friend's birthday gathering can throb like a smashed finger, and a new volume on social pain helps us to understand why. Proven experts and promising newer scholars summarize key findings and present them in approachable and informative ways in Social Pain: Neurophysiological and Health Implications of Loss and Exclusion, In the nascent field of social neuroscience, mammalian responses to social stress, loneliness, separation, and social evaluation are drawing considerable attention. Researchers have warmed to a notion that Panksepp and his colleagues suggested in the 1970s: that social separation produces pain akin to the pain from a physical injury (Herman & Panksepp, 1978; Panksepp, 2003). Some researchers have gone so far as to claim that physical pain is basically " an emotion with sensory features " (Chapman & Nakamura, 1999, p. 416). Neuroscientists are enthusiastic about the possibility that the two types of pain share neurophysiological underpinnings. Furthermore, there is mounting evidence for some common genetic links between physical and social pain Regarding neurophysiological and behavioral associations, this new book provides an excellent overview of the research to date. Readers learn about key regions in the mammalian nervous system that process the " PAIN/GRIEF " (see Chapter 1 by Panksepp) associated with physical and social injuries. In addition, in Part I, the book offers a synopsis of genetic links to social pain in language that is basic enough for non-neuroscientists and nongeneticists. In Part I readers naïve about genetics might not discriminate between terms like gene (e.g., OPRM1) and polymorphism (e.g., A118G), but we feel confident that they will use Way and Taylor's guiding paragraph (p. 97) and, perhaps, will seek further information from among Chapter 4 references. Admittedly, a tutorial about types of polymorphisms (such as minisatellites and microsatellites) would be hard to give in this relatively brief book of just 258 pages. Numerous mentions, across chapters, of Eisenberger's work emphasize its criticality. To experts, these multiple citations might seem slightly redundant, but they are complementary. Moreover, they are most certainly warranted, as the study by Eisenberger, Lieberman, and Williams (2003) was defining—harking back to Panksepp's contention that all pain is emotional and heralding in a new era of understanding about the role of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; see Panksepp, 2003). Are people with high trait-aggression less or more sensitive to socioemotional slights? With her colleagues, Eisenberger (see Chapter 2) has demonstrated that those …