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Social exclusion max also decrease prosocial behavior.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.56</ref>
Social exclusion max also decrease prosocial behavior.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.1.56</ref>
Warm partner contact reduces circulatory and heard stress, also with large effect size, which may explain earlier cardio-vascular failure in lonely people.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Warm_partner_contact_lowers_stress_levels</ref>  
Warm partner contact reduces circulatory and heard stress, also with large effect size, which may explain earlier cardio-vascular failure in lonely people.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Warm_partner_contact_lowers_stress_levels</ref>  
== Depression ==
Incels are also often depressed, e.g. in an informal survey, 59.4% of [[incels.co]] users reported to be depressed.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/survey-results-for-october-2019.147774/</ref> Again, whether inceldom causes depression or vice-versa, is unknown but both are plausible.
There exists evidence that depression permanently damages brain functions and lowers IQ. Recovery from depression largely restores cognitive performance, but some deficits remain, possibly especially in verbal performance.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1572949</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01564.x</ref> Some of this may be caused by permanent shrinkage of the hippocampus, possibly caused by cell death due to stress.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/30/chronic-depression-shrinks-brains-memories-and-emotions</ref>
Driver of depression could besides social exclusion also be that one feels bad for not accomplishing what all one's ancestors have accomplished, that is reproducing. One becomes a [[genetic dead end]] (GDE).
Despite the fact that some people rejoice at the prospects of being childless, claiming that this has afforded them freedoms and allowed them to focus on their careers etc., there are also setbacks to being childless. Having offspring can give a person meaning to life, and can be rewarding to raise another human, and children often bring one joy. What compounds the GDE resulting from inceldom, is that unlike GDE from choice, a person on the [[inceldom spectrum]] is childless notwithstanding their own will. Being an incel in general is a source of embarrassment by virtue of belonging to a minority.
A simple Darwinian argument can also be made that people should feel shitty when they cannot gain access to reproductive opportunities. From a Darwinian perspective, this is the worst place to be in, as one cannot propagate their genes. For this reason, one would expect negative emotions like depression to have evolved that disincentivize men from accepting their inceldom. The explanation is simple: Individuals with a mutation to embrace their inceldom were outreproduced by those who didn't, in fact they did not reproduce at all. This does not necessarily mean people's mood is expected to be in proportion to their reproductive success (it isn't), but it is in proportion to other heuristic conditions that have evolved to incentivize reproduction (status, orgasms, warm body contact, socializing etc.). In fact, men with more offspring today to not feel better about themselves.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/351391.pdf</ref> Therefore, [[GDE]] is probably a bit of a meme.


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== Non-cooperativeness ==
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