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Social Pain
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Social Pain is best understood by separating the social event, rejection expectation, interpretation, immediate response, chosen behavior and longer-term relational consequence. pain is real even when interpretation is uncertain, while a strong feeling alone cannot prove intent, exclusion, personal defect or clinical disorder.
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