Rejection is a term
indicating that something is being pushed away or refused. A female animal may
refuse to accept and feed her offspring. The body’s immune system may repel an
invading pathogenic organism or refuse to accept an organ transplant. Rejection
can also be “social” as when an
individual is excluded by a school, church, or other group. The human brain is
a relational organ and has a fundamental need to belong to some type of group,
making rejection all the more painful. Experiencing rejection can result in a
form of stress. Being spurned, unaccepted, shunned, excluded, ostracized, or
given the “cold shoulder” can generate feelings of sadness, grief, shame, or a
sense of being worthless. It can
impact cognition (thinking). Simply being asked to remember a time when the
person was rejected can result in that individual scoring significantly lower
on subsequent IQ tests.
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