A new article published in Advances In Motivation Science attempts to put our never-ending pursuit to be accepted by other people into proper scientific context. “Over the past 30 years, we have ...

Rejection lights up the same neural pathways as physical pain, sharpening attention to others’ cues and eroding self-worth.

Why your brain catastrophizes when someone doesn't text you back, and how to stop the constant rumination from ruining ...

Sara*, a married woman in her 40s, goes to bed every night feeling rejected by her husband. "He never initiates sex, he never puts his arms around me," she told me in our first session. "When I reach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rejection is universal, yet the way it hits us can feel personal, almost like a wound that never quite heals. It doesn’t matter if ...

I have been part of the same group of friends for more than 30 years. About a decade ago, when I got married, I asked one of them, someone I considered like a sister, to be my maid of honor. She and I ...

Interestingly, the term “limerence” has come back in style. This term can be found in the 1979 book Love and Limerence by Dorothy Tennov. Limerence is “first and foremost a condition of cognitive ...