Psychology: How Rejection Affects The Brain

Life is not always fair. Many times people have been turned down, had the door slammed in their faces or have been told, ‘No’. But it is this rejection that helps people get back on their feet. Sometimes it is this rejection that builds strength and character in the person. In the movie Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton (the director) has shown that rejection affects everyone, but it can help to make some people stronger and brings out a side of the person that wasn’t there before.

The poem ‘First Love’ by Mick Gowar describes the affect that first love has. ‘Rejection’ by Jenny Sullivan details the shame that rejection brings. The title ‘First Love’ links to a sense of naivety and innocence. It suggests that the poem may be romantic and meaningful.

Rejection happens every day and is all around us. Becoming a professional athlete is a prime example

Human rejection is a negative phenomenon that has persisted throughout the entirety of human existence. It is present everywhere we go and there is no escaping it. The concept of human rejection is one that lead to the creation of Dante’s Inferno and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein proving that this phenomenon has persisted throughout history although it may not have been known as rejection centuries ago. Both of these literary works of art show how dire the consequences of human rejection are and give us lessons to learn that are applicable to todays society.

For centuries scholars have tried to define love to a ‘t’. Neuroscientists currently believe that the basic human emotions and motivations arise from distinct circuits or systems of neural activity (Davidson, 1994; Panksepp,

Jia Jiang introduced the audience his motion of 100 days of rejection, a “Rejection Therapy”, which was invested by the Canadian entrepreneur, Jason Comely. The basic idea of Rejection Therapy is for 100 days, you go out and look for rejection and every day get rejected by something, you desensitize yourself from the pain by the end. What’s more, he talked a lot about the reason makes the strangers reject his asking. For example, one day, Jia Jiang went to a stranger’s house with a flower in his hand and he asking for planting the flower in the stranger’s backyard. He was rejected but that’s because the stranger has a dog and he did not want Jia Jiang’s flower dug by this dog. Therefore, it was because what he offered does not fit what the stranger

Rejection does not feel good. Often times, rejection is a lonely place. Rejection caused Joseph to become a slave and a prisoner. He lived in a pit and he was left in prison for several years on more than one occasion. While in each of these places, Joseph never forgot his dream. Joseph was faced with being called a liar and a rapist but he never forgot his dreams. I am certain that Joseph did not understand what was going on or why his dream was not coming to fruition but he never gave up. While in prison Joseph still exercised

Sarah Gehrke is one example. She researched from the Journal of Psychophysiology as well as online medical articles from NCBI to come up with the scientific steps of falling in love. She explains falling in love through a more psychological view. Gehrke writes, according to Arthur Aron and his science-based study, “On average, the mind of a person takes between 90 seconds to 4 minutes to determine whether it is struck by love or not”. One may think, what are the determining factors of this? Aron’s study concludes that body language is the major factor. Over fifty percent is given to body language meaning when one meets a person the simple body activity of the person their meeting will trigger the brain to determine whether or not it is receiving signals of love. Interestingly, thirty-eight percent of the brain’s decision is based on the suitor’s voice, voice as in the tone and the frequency that it changes. For example, a deeper tone may be found more attractive. The reaction of the suitor to the conversation and the suitor’s word choice also plays in to the decision, but only less than ten percent

The nature between the persons involved also has an effect on the emotional reactions to rejection. When there is mutual sexual interest the response to sexual rejection will be completely different than that of someone you just met. Whether sexual intercourse previously took place complicates how someone would react to sexual

One quote supporting this reason comes from the fourth paragraph, saying “I shall propose that love addiction is just as real as any other addiction, in terms of it's behavior patterns and brain mechanisms.” Another quote would be from paragraph 6, saying “Moreover, love-besotted men and women show all the basic

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A life devoid of love creates a period of vigorous mental instability and often opens eyes and promotes changes in lifestyle and perspective. This transformation is almost never a smooth one, and somebody travelling down a pathway can easily lose their way and travel off the beaten trail. Where they end up is always relative to their situation. For instance, as their journey

During the 9th grade Jerod was a victim of numerous types of bullying and rejection in his class and grade. He was determined to try get help from his teachers but they didn’t succeed and weren’t able to make him feel secured at school. As a result of offline social peer rejection he stayed at his home for two months. For Jerod his school symbolized a place of terror, pain and frustration. He explains that compared to his ability to move on when rejected online, when he was at school he couldn’t close the computer or run away. Although, going through online rejection, Jerod felt he had a wider ability to consume control over rejection online, “you can just turn off your computer and it kind of ends.” The opportunity of having a sense of control over the intensity of the rejection is fundamental in being able to find the power to cope with the rejection experience.

in neuroscience, love is much stronger than a basic emotion or state of mind. Emotionally, it means thinking obsessively and repeatedly about the beloved. This takes up around 85% of waking time. The person’s own priorities change and there is a continual, compulsive desire for closeness. Anxiety and fear are reduced, and risk-taking is made easier. A feeling of ecstatic, euphoric happiness takes over the person, and he or she is ready to die for the beloved. (Sultan, 2012, p. 746).

This functional magnetic resonance imaging study was conducted in order to answer the question which is that “does rejection hurt?”, in other words, to find out whether the parts of human brains that are activated by social pain are similar to those regions that react to physical pain.