Money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of rejection, new research shows.From Live Science:
Money dulls physical pain and eases the sting of social rejection, new research shows.
Through six experiments, psychologists and a marketing professor probed the power of money as a proxy for social acceptance. Among their results, they found that merely touching bills or thinking about expenses paid affected the participants both physically and emotionally.
Because it affects pain, money may be a clue to how the brain evolved to process social interactions, the researchers wrote in a paper published in the June edition of the journal Psychological Science.
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My Comment: And a lack of money causes a lot of pain and grief. Tell me sonething that I do not know.
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