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Thoughts of money soothe social rejection

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Handling cash also eases physical pain.

Handling or even contemplating money can relieve both physical pain and the distress of social rejection, according to a study by Chinese and American psychologists1. But remembering cash one has spent intensifies both types of hurt.

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  1. Zhou, X., Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. Psychological Science doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02353.x (2009).

  2. Vohs, K. D., Mead, N. L., & Goode, M. R. Science 314, 1154-1156 2006.

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Laursen, L. Thoughts of money soothe social rejection. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.481

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