{
  "id": 14193471,
  "title": "People who ghost tend to feel worse about it than the people they ghost realize",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/people-who-ghost-tend-to-feel-worse-about-it-than-the-people-they",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T12:00:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/people-who-ghost-tend-to-feel-worse-about-it-than-the-people-they-ghost-realize/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A new study suggests that people who stop responding to messages, known as \"ghosters,\" often feel worse about their silence than the recipients realize. The research, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, also found that even a brief reply can help to lessen this emotional misunderstanding. The findings indicate that ghosting may not be as simple as just being cold or hostile, but can encompass unintentional, temporary behaviour as well.",
  "summary": "Being ghosted can feel like proof the other person doesn’t care. But in studies of recalled and imagined conversations, people who stopped replying felt worse about it than those left waiting predicted, especially when the silence was accidental.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}