ArticleBiological psychology2018
Taking rejection to heart: Associations between blood pressure and sensitivity to social pain.
Article in Biological psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Physical activity and racial discrimination involvement in pain sensitivity in Asian Americans and non-Hispanic Whites.Pain reports · 2025Article
- The role of anxiety in the association between physical pain and social pain sensitivity in young adults.Pain management · 2025Article
- The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Associations of discrimination and physical activity with social pain sensitivity and a moderating effect of gender in young adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Associations between mental health, blood pressure and the development of hypertension.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Resting (Tonic) Blood Pressure Is Associated With Sensitivity to Imagined and Acute Experiences of Social Pain: Evidence From Three Studies.Psychological science · 2022Article
- Differences in Emotion Expression, Suppression, and Cardiovascular Consequences Between Black and White Americans in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Study.Psychosomatic medicineArticle
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Abstract
A reliable finding from the physical pain literature is that individuals with higher resting (i.e., tonic) blood pressure experience relatively less pain in response to nociceptive stimuli. Converging lines of evidence suggest that biological factors that influence the experience of physical pain may also relate to social pain. An open question, however, is whether higher blood pressure per se is a biological factor associated with lower sensitivity to social pain. This possible association was tested in three studies. Consistent with prior findings on physical pain, higher resting blood pressure was associated with lower self-reported sensitivity to social pain across individuals (Study 1 r = -.303, Study 2 r = -.262, -.246), even after adjusting for confounding factors related to blood pressure (Study 3 r = -.222). Findings suggest a previously unknown biological correlate of sensitivity to social pain, providing further evidence for possible shared substrates for physical and social pain.
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