Sticks And Stones: A New Study On Social And Physical Pain

Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:28 in Psychology & Sociology

According to a new study, words may pack a harder punch that we realize. Psychologists have found that while the pain of physical events may fade with time, the pain of social occurrences can be reinstantiated through memory retrievals.

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