Quite reasonable if someone feels there is something really broken when a broken heart. Edward Smith, a researcher from Columbia University found that, during human evolution, rejection of a group can cause a person to feel vulnerable.
"Maybe that's why appears the relationship between rejection and pain, so that we can avoid the rejection," said Smith as reported by Yahoo News, Tuesday (03/29/2011).
Smith and his colleagues in Manhattan spread flyers, online advertisements on Facebook and Craigslist to look for participants who had experienced a breakup in the next six months. They eventually found 40 people willing to undergo the study.
All participants then underwent brain scans using functional resonance imaging (fMRI), where they took turns to see photos of friends and former lovers. When I saw the photograph, participants were asked to remember the experiences they've ever experienced with the people in the photograph.
To compare participants' responses to physical pain, researchers put a tool that can deliver the heat on their arms. Researchers found, part of the brain that is connected with physical pain also respond when participants were given a bad breakup experiences.
"Rejection is painful, in the truest sense," said Smith responded to the results of the study.
Now a team of researchers is looking for techniques that can be used to reduce the emotional suffering, including the method has been used by the therapist. "For example, advice that we should remember the experience with his former lover as a third party who saw it all from afar," continued Smith.
Further, Smith urged not to consume aspirin when the pain of a breakup that 'attack'. "An hour later you could be going back to thinking about that person again," due diligence.
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