id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3630 Social rejection - Wikipedia .html text/html 6139 902 58 A study at Miami University indicated that individuals who recently experienced social rejection were better than both accepted and control participants in their ability to discriminate between real and fake smiles. Social rejection has a large effect on a person's health. Having poor relationships and being more frequently rejected is predictive of mortality.[49] Also, as long as a decade after the marriage ends, divorced women have higher rates of illness than their non-married or currently married counterparts.[50] In the case of a family estrangement, a core part of the mother's identity may be betrayed by the rejection of an adult child.[51] The chance for reconciliation, however slight, results in an inability to attain closure.[52] The resulting emotional state and societal stigma from the estrangement may harm psychological and physical health of the parent through end of life.[53][54][55] Psychology Today article on self-esteem and social rejection ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3630.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3630.txt