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![]() ![]() A few years ago a group of doctors at Johns Hopkins University reported a rare but lethal heart condition caused by acute emotional distress. Truth is you don’t have to be a sentimentalist to believe in broken hearts - being a subscriber to the New England Journal of Medicine will do. In one example from early 2012, Marjorie and James Landis of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who’d been married for 65 years, died just 88 minutes apart. Old couples frequently make the news because they can’t physically survive without one another. At the same time, life often presents a compelling argument that the two types of pain share a common source. We agree that “love hurts,” but we don’t think it hurts the way that, say, being kicked in the shin hurts. Most of us see the connection between social and physical pain as a figurative one. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.Psychological Science in the Public Interest.Current Directions in Psychological Science. ![]()
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