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They report that they still feel pain
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As painful stimulation was applied to his left arm
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Neuroscientist Paul MacLean experimented with the effects of
lesioning
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When the dACC is stimulated in rhesus monkeys
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female rats were treated in one of three ways
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Kip Williams’s paradigm was called
Cyberball
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We had people play
Cyberball
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there was a single moment at which point we knew
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in the social pain study, participants who activated
See
Chapter 9
for more on the role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in self-control and emotion regulation.

59

Looking at the screens, side by side
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8
, 294–300.

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lots of scientists didn’t buy our findings
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In the mid- to late 1990s, several neuroimaging studies were published
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a seminal paper on the function of the dACC
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Psychologists have long enjoyed dichotomizing processes
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several other neuroimaging papers of emotion or pain distress
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a paper on a new model of dACC function
Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Why it hurts to be left out: The neurocognitive overlap between physical and social pain.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8
, 294–300. For more recent reviews taking a similar view, see Shackman, A. J., Salomons, T. V., Slagter, H. A., Fox, A. S., Winter, J. J., & Davidson, R. J. (2011). The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex.
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everyone figures out to use the metal knocker
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Psychological Science, 15
, 14–19.

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a conflict/error detection procedure called the
stop-signal task
Spunt, R. P., Lieberman, M. D., Cohen, J. R., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). The phenomenology of error processing: The dorsal anterior cingulate response to stop-signal errors tracks reports of negative affect.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24
, 1753–1765; see also Botvinick, M. M. (2007). Conflict monitoring and decision making: Reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function.
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7
, 356–366.

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Our basic findings linking social exclusion
Masten, C. L., Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Time spent with friends in adolescence relates to less neural sensitivity to later peer rejection.
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(1), 106–114; Bolling, D. Z., Pitskel, N. B., Deen, B., Crowley, M. J., McPartland, J. C., Mayes, L. C., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2011). Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation.
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(4), 331–346; Wager, T. D., van Ast, V. A., Hughes, B. L., Davidson, M. L., Lindquist, M. A., & Ochsner, K. N. (2009). Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat,
part II
: Prefrontal-subcortical pathways and relationship with anxiety.
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Social Neuroscience, 2
(3-4), 238–253; Fisher, H. E., Brown, L. L., Aron, A., Strong, G., & Mashek, D. (2010). Reward, addiction, and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love.
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(1), 51–60; Kross, E., Berman, M. G., Mischel, W., Smith, E. E., & Wager, T. D. (2011). Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108
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NeuroImage, 42
(2), 969–972; Gündel, H., O’Connor, M. F., Littrell, L., Fort, C., & Lane, R. D. (2003). Functional neuroanatomy of grief: An fMRI study.
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23
(11), 3448–3455.

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over-the-counter painkillers would reduce social pain
DeWall, C. N., MacDonald, G., Webster, G. D., Masten, C. L., Baumeister, R. F., Powell, C., Combs, D., Schurtz, D. R., Stillman, T. F., Tice, D. M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2010). Acetaminophen reduces social pain: Behavioral and neural evidence.
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, 931–937.

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Mice that have been bred to lack the mu-opioid receptor
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 94
, 1544–1549.

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We inherit one allele from our mother
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