<p>Ignoring is a type of social rejection see extracts from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_rejection" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wiki</a>:</p>
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<p>Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded
from a social relationship or social interaction. ... rejection can be either active, by bullying, teasing, or ridiculing, or passive, by ignoring a person, or giving the &quot;silent treatment.&quot;</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Researchers have also investigated how the brain responds to social
rejection. One study found that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex
is active when people are experiencing both physical pain and &quot;social
pain,&quot; in response to social rejection.</p>
</blockquote>

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<p>Ignoring someone is a manipulatory technique used at times. Ignoring the attacks of someone else through emotional detachment has a very strong effect on the attacker.</p>

<p>Is there a name for this kind of manipulative behavior?</p>

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A lot of assumptions being made in this question without referring to any source, and a lot of tangential unfocused questions. Please focus on one. If you are after verification whether there is a concept/terminology for this behavior, start there. If there is, you can go from there to find documentation on it and ask your subsequent questions. Edited to reflect this.
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Why being ignored is 'painful' for human beings?
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# Why being ignored is 'painful' for human beings?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-26)

Ignoring someone is a manipulatory technique used at times. Ignoring the attacks of someone else through emotional detachment has a very strong effect on the attacker.

Is there a name for this kind of manipulative behavior?

**Tags:** social-psychology, terminology

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: A lot of assumptions being made in this question without referring to any source, and a lot of tangential unfocused questions. Please focus on one. If you are after verification whether there is a concept/terminology for this behavior, start there. If there is, you can go from there to find documentation on it and ask your subsequent questions. Edited to reflect this.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2016-02-01. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Ignoring is a type of social rejection see extracts from [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_rejection):

> Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded
> from a social relationship or social interaction. ... rejection can be either active, by bullying, teasing, or ridiculing, or passive, by ignoring a person, or giving the "silent treatment."
>
> ...
>
> Researchers have also investigated how the brain responds to social
> rejection. One study found that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex
> is active when people are experiencing both physical pain and "social
> pain," in response to social rejection.


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