Does social rejection hurt? We often describe ouremotional reaction to social rejection as “pain." Doessocial rejection cause activity in areas of the brainthat are known to be activated by physical pain? Ifit does, we really do experience social and physicalpain in similar ways. Psychologists first included andthen deliberately excluded individuals from a socialactivity while they measured changes in brain activity.After each activity, the subjects filled out question-naires that assessed how excluded they felt. The tablebelow shows data for 13 subjects. “Social distress" ismeasured by each subjecť's questionnaire score afterexclusion relative to the score after inclusion. (So val-ues greater than 1 show the degree of distress causedby exclusion.) “Brain activity" is the change in activityin a region of the brain that is activated by physicalpain. (So positive values show more pain.)SubjectSocial distressBrain activity11.26-0.0551.85-0.04031.10-0.02642.50-0.0172.17-0.0176.2.670.01772.010.02182.180.0259.2.580.027102.750.033112.750.064123.330.077133.650.124Make a scatterplot to display the relationship betweensocial distress and brain activity. Describe what you see.

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Does social rejection hurt? We often describe our emotional reaction to social rejection as “pain." Does social rejection cause activity in areas of the brain that are known to be activated by physical pain? If it does, we really do experience social and physical pain in similar ways. Psychologists first included and then deliberately excluded individuals from a social activity while they measured changes in brain activity. After each activity, the subjects filled out question- naires that assessed how excluded they felt. The table below shows data for 13 subjects. “Social distress" is measured by each subject's questionnaire score after exclusion relative to the score after inclusion. (So val- ues greater than 1 show the degree of distress caused by exclusion.) “Brain activity" is the change in activity in a region of the brain that is activated by physical pain. (So positive values show more pain.) Subject Social distress Brain activity 1 1.26 -0.055 2 1.85 -0.040 3 1.10 -0.026 4 2.50 -0.017 2.17 -0.017 6. 2.67 0.017 7 2.01 0.021 8. 2.18 0.025 9. 2.58 0.027 10 2.75 0.033 11 2.75 0.064 12 3.33 0.077 13 3.65 0.124 Make a scatterplot to display the relationship between social distress and brain activity. Describe what you see.

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Chapter4: Equations Of Linear Functions

Section4.5: Correlation And Causation

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