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Managing with the Brain in Mind by David Rock
Naomi Eisenberger, a leading social neuroscience researcher at the
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), wanted to understand what
goes on in the brain when people feel rejected by others. She designed an
experiment in which volunteers played a computer game called Cyberball
while having their brains scanned by a functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) machine. Cyberball hearkens back to the nastiness of the
school playground.
“People thought they were playing a ball-tossing game
over the Internet with two other people,” Eisenberger explains. “They could
see an avatar that represented themselves, and avatars [ostensibly] for two
other people. Then, about halfway through this game of catch among the
three of them, the subjects stopped receiving the ball and the two other
supposed players threw the ball only to each other.” Even after they learned
that no other human players were involved, the game players spoke of feeling
angry, snubbed, or judged, as if the other avatars excluded them because they
didn’t like something about them.
This reaction could be traced directly to the brain’s responses. “When people felt excluded,” says Eisenberger, “we saw activity in the dorsal portion of the anterior cingulate cortex — the neural region involved in the distressing component of pain, or what is sometimes referred to as the ‘suffering’ component of pain. Those people who felt the most rejected had the highest levels of activity in this region.” In other words, the feeling of being excluded provoked the same sort of reaction in the brain that physical pain might cause. (See Exhibit 1.)
Eisenberger’s fellow researcher Matthew Lieberman, also of UCLA, hypothesizes that human beings evolved this link between social connection and physical discomfort within the brain “because, to a mammal, being socially connected to caregivers is necessary for survival.” This study and many others now emerging have made one thing clear: The human brain is a social organ. Its physiological and neurological reactions are directly and profoundly shaped by social interaction. Indeed, as Lieberman puts it, “Most processes operating in the background when your brain is at rest are involved in thinking about other people and yourself.”
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Managing with the Brain in Mind 
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