Dr. Ben Rein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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And it's because of empathy.
It hurts to hurt other people.
It's difficult.
Social smells, tears specifically, are probably one of the factors driving that.
But there's probably other things, too.
I bet that sweat also plays a role.
You know, there's probably some odors in the sweat of people who are distressed that maybe have kind of the same effect.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were the case.
The researchers have found that if someone experiences social rejection, for instance, or like being neglected in a social group, it activates some of the same brain areas that are activated by physical pain, which makes kind of sense.
If you've experienced social pain, it's like it's really terrible.
And by the way, like pain...
There's two pieces of it.
There's like the physical, like if I slice my hand open, my hand is like, ow, this hurts.
And then there's this called the affective or emotional component of pain that is like bad, bad, bad.
Like this is negative emotion surrounding this.
And that's the part that seems to be activated by social pain.
So this is why like it hurts so bad to be rejected.
It hurts so incredibly bad to go through a breakup.
You know, it's like physically painful in many cases.
So it's legitimately painful.
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