Psychology & Psychiatry
Rich people don't need friends
In a paper evaluated by f1000 Medicine, six studies tested relationships between reminders of money, social exclusion and physical pain.
Sep 16, 2009
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News tagged with social exclusion
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mindfulness training leads to kindness toward socially ostracized strangers, study finds
People receiving brief instruction in mindfulness exhibited more kindness to strangers who had been ostracized or socially excluded by their peers, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Jan 12, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Relationship breakdown - the real cost
Separation leaves men feeling isolated and women experiencing greater levels of poverty, according to a leading researcher at The University of Queensland (UQ).
Jul 07, 2010
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is a hormone the key to understanding borderline personality disorder?
In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a group of German investigators is reporting on the potential effects of a hormone in borderline personality disorder. Besides affective instability and identity diffusion, ...
Sep 04, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psilocybin reduces psychological pain after social exclusion
Social problems are key characteristics in psychiatric disorders and are insufficiently targeted by current treatment approaches. By applying brain imaging methods, researchers at the University of Zurich now show that a ...
Apr 18, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Broken hearts really hurt
"Broken-hearted" isn't just a metaphor -- social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions ...
Feb 22, 2012
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Attention deficit disorders
Friendships between young children can protect against ADHD
Children who experience social exclusion in preschool are at greater risk of becoming so-called "school losers." Norwegian researchers are studying what happens to children who are marginalized.
Nov 15, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mean girls and queen bees: Females threatened by social exclusion will reject others first
Many studies have suggested that males tend to be more physically and verbally aggressive than females. According to a new study, to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, ...
Feb 24, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
'Phubbing' can threaten our basic human needs, research shows
New research has shown that ignoring someone you're with in a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone - called 'phubbing' - can have a negative effect on relationships by threatening our basic human need to belong.
Mar 26, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
In Haiti, gay men infected with HIV are targets of discrimination
In Haiti, about 150,000 people out of a population of 11 million are believed to be living with the HIV virus. Of those, only 55% have access to antiretroviral medications. What explains this lack of access to care?
Jun 26, 2019
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