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Friday, July 09, 2010

Why Breakups Hurt

The Cruelest Study: Why Breakups Hurt

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  • Say you're a college student who was recently dumped by the person you thought was the One. You're moping around campus in your I've-given-up sweatpants and eating crappy comfort food when you come across a flyer seeking people who are still pining for their exes. You think, at last, someone to talk to!
Well, not exactly. When about 15 sad sacks responded to the flyers, which had been distributed around the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Rutgers University, they discovered they were actually being invited to take part in a psychological study: researchers wanted to gauge the kind of pain felt by people on the business end of a breakup./.../

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2002688,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz0tBvJEwmy

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