Episode 3- Pain Innoculation and Social Bonding- Why We Endure Rituals of Pain

Welcome to Episode 3! It took us a bit longer to get this out than we would have liked, but the holidays definitely messed up our schedule and there is a lot of research we wanted to get together to share during the episode and to put in the show notes. We appreciate your patience!!In this episode we discuss the biological reason that we might, as human animals, be inclined to put ourselves and our offspring through painful ordeals. We ponder what exactly the benefits of such experience might be and also why we continue to do so today.We thank everyone for their continued support! Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you’ll see as soon as we post a new podcast! We really appreciate the feedback we have gotten so far, so please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve the podcast, or if there is anything that you are loving about what we’re doing. If you have any questions or comments, you can always email us at [email protected] Notes:Bastian, Brock, Jolanda Jetten, and Fabio Fasoli. "Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh." Psychological Science 22.3 (2011): 334-335.Bastian, Brock, Jolanda Jetten, and Laura J. Ferris. "Pain as Social Glue." Psychological Science 25.11 (2014): 2079-2085.Bergland, Christopher. “New Clues on Rewiring Your Brain.” Psychology Today March 28, 2012, www. Psychology today.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201203/new-clues-rewiring-your-brainCraig, A.D. “A New View of Pain as a Homeostatic Emotion.” Trends in Neurosciences 26 (2003): 303-307.Day, Melissa A, Charles LWard, M DawnEhde, E BeverlyThorn, John Burns, Amanda Barnier, B JasonMattingley, and P MarkJensen. "A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain." Pain Medicine Advance Article (2019).Fischer, Ronald, and Dimitris Xygalatas. "Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies." Journal of Cognition and Culture 14.5 (2014): 345-355.Gapp, Katharina, Ali Jawaid, Peter Sarkies, Johannes Bohacek, Pawel Pelczar, Julien Prados, Laurent Farinelli, Eric Miska, and Isabelle M Mansuy. "Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice." Nature Neuroscience 17.5 (2014): 667-669.Henrich, Joseph. "The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion." Evolution and Human Behavior 30.4 (2009): 244-260Hughes, Virginia. "Sperm RNA carries marks of trauma." Nature 508.7496 (2014): 296-297.Levi-Strauss, Claude, The Raw and the Cooked. Introduction to a Science of Mythology. Volume I., (1969).Stein, Murray B., Laura Campbell‐Sills, and Joel Gelernter. "Genetic variation in 5HTTLPR is associated with emotional resilience." American Journal of Medical Genetics part B 150B.7 (2009): 900-906.Tatta, Dr. Joe. “How the Brain Creates Pain— and How to Stop It.” Integrative Pain Science Institute Blog. www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com/brain-create-pain-stopTurner, Victor, “Body, Brain, and Culture” Zygon Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 18, issue 3, Sept 1983, p.221-245.Vågerö, Denny, and Kristiina Rajaleid. "Does childhood trauma influence offspring’s birth characteristics?." International Journal of Epidemiology 46.1 (2017).