Table of Contents:
  • The neurobiology of social loss in animals : some keys to the puzzle of psychic pain in humans / Jaak Panksepp
  • The neural basis of social pain : findings and implications / Naomi I. Eisenberger
  • Physiological responses to experiences of social pain / Sally S. Dickerson
  • Genetic factors in social pain / Baldwin M. Way and Shelley E. Taylor
  • Acetaminophen dulls psychological pain / C. Nathan DeWall, Richard S. Pond Jr., and Timothy Deckman
  • Defensive avoidance of social pain via perceptions of social threat and reward / Geoff Macdonald, Terry K. Borsook, and Stephanie S. Spielmann
  • Social pain is easily relived and prelived, but physical pain is not / Zhansheng Chen and Kipling D. Williams
  • The biopsychosocial perspective of pain and emotion / Robert J. Gatchel and Nancy D. Kishino
  • Social stressors, social pain, and health / Andrew Baum, Carroll Michelle Lee, and Angela Liegey Dougall
  • Bullying and its long-term health implications / Jennifer M. Knack, Haylie L. Gomez, and Lauri A. Jensen-Campbell.