How and why do we trust people?
How do we recognize attractive people for us?
Modern neuroscience opens secret mechanisms hidden behind this
phenomenon
Deep inside our brains there lie two tiny structures – Amygdales - looking
like small almonds.
When we see somebody’s face (real or
on photo) perfectly mating our biology, our right
amygdale immediately recognizes this person’s friendliness and emotional pleasure
to deal with them,
Areas of right-left amygdales projections on human cortex
The left amygdale is engaged in linear,
explicit and conscious information processing, when people start analyzing relationships,
asking ‘why?’ and ‘what?’ questions.
In the presence of well-matching person or by look on the photos, the right
amygdale responds immediately, in
non-linear mode, skipping conscious interpretation.
This is how ideally matching people begin to trust and like each other, without
any reason.
The inexplicable pleasure they experiencing in each other’s company, also
appears due to the simultaneous reaction of Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) together with amygdale.
OFC is the region involved in reward
processing,
such as pleasure, happiness, delight,
friendliness, trust and erotic drive.
This is how romantic, partnership and friendship relations appear
between people on the basis of mutual trust and attractiveness.
This natural principle also manifests itself
immediately in the presence of ‘mismatching’ human-beings.
Right-hemispheric people know about it at once,
without conscious analysis. They would say “I do not like him/her!” No reasons would
make them adopt to this person or change their attitudes.
Read about right-left hemispheric people from
this blog
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Natalia Levis-Fox
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