Neuroscience
Trust = Love?
An article in a recent issue of
Science suggests that the emotion of trust "lives" near the emotion of love in the brain. Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Neuroimaging Laboratoryused fMRI imaging and an investment game to pinpoint a trust response to the caudate nucleus at the base of the brain -- the same area where researchers 5 years ago think love "lives."
Read more at RedNova or track down the April 1 issue of
Science (not available at Hampshire online, but we do have it in print!)
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Political Distrust - The Lesson From Canada
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Eeg Speed Dating
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Human Functional Brain Imaging
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The Passionate Caudate
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Neuroeconomics And The Cingulate Cortex
Anatomy of Give and Take Economic theory goes only so far in explaining why people buy, sell, save or trust. Scientists are looking inside the mind for answers. By Robert Lee Hotz, Times Staff Writer The Los Angeles Times 18 March 2005 HOUSTON — The...
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