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Insults

Colin Wright
Nov 17, 2022
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Brain Lenses
Insults
A recent study published in Frontiers in Communication suggests that insults—even minor, seemingly insignificant ones—are cognitively processed similarly to a small slap to the face. Interestingly (almost as interesting as the core object of the study, I would argue), research subjects responded in this way even to insults that were administered in a research setting: not being insulted by a friend or loved one or even a real-world enemy, but to insults hurled by fictitious people in writing that was then read aloud by the subject…
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