We know verbal insults hurt.
Now new research goes some way to explaining why visceral shocks to spoken insults linger longer than praise or compliments often do.
"In passing, we may gain more insight into the everyday experience of why some things continue to move us, while others do not," the teamUnderstandably, there's a lot for our brains to process when we hear an insult. In the split second it takes to recall the meaning of words and to interpret the social situation quickly and a speaker's intentions.
The researchers found insults uttered by a fictitious person triggered short bursts of brain activity in the front part of listeners' brains, regardless of who the insult was directed at, themselves or somebody else. "This suggests that whatever aspect of insults is responsible for capturing extra attention" – whether it be the emotional meaning of words or the memory of past experiences, something which the study couldn't untangle –"does so in a highly robust way," the teamThe researchers figure that the fact that insults seemingly captured the brain's attention within 250 milliseconds is indicative not only of our sensitivity to undesirable social behavior but also that our...
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