If love is said to come from the heart, what about hate? Along with music, religion, irony and a host of other complex concepts, researchers are on the hunt for the neurological underpinnings of hatred. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has begun to reveal how the strong emotion starts to emerge in the brain
The brain appears to activate in some of the same areas when people look at photos of people they love as when they look at pictures of people they hate–but not people they feel neutrally toward. Coincidence?
Scientific American (Thanks Eliza)
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All I know is that both love and hate are very strong emotions and neither should be felt lightly.
LC x
Also amazing how hatred changes your appearance. Took me a while to recognise you Mr Brown.
I’d love to smash that guy’s face in.
well this would make sense as the line between love and hate is very fine. just begun to realise this recently.
Anger to signify caring, fear to motivate ourselves, sadness to express our love, it’s just the believe that these emotions are needed for these tasks, reinforced by what we’ve learned from everyone else. It’s quite self-evident that whatever we can do with unhappiness, we can do better when we are happy.
@mau
Why?
I just can’t help but laugh every time I look at him…. it’s funny.
“I would have gotten away with it too…..”
I hate commenting on blog posts. Grr, stoopid blog.
The buddhists teach that the chain is:
Ignorance
leads to
fear
leads to
anger
leads to
hatred
leads to
suffering
Trying to find where Tomb Raider fits into that sequence….
i wonder why that happens. It makes u feel gd tho. The power of photos. Lol.
Julian Pratt – I always thought that was the teachings of Yoda, then I realised your syntax is correct!
Did Yoda plagurise Buddha then?
That’ll teach Buddha not to copyright his pearls of wisdom! What a muppet!
How can you tell when its actual hate you are feeling, an not just anger or a dislike?
I don’t know… I think anger tends to more subtle and justified, hate is too strong to use efficiently.
See where my name takes you to have a closer look at OUR WORLD.
So only the people that leave you more in your own being will nto trigger that area. Only those with whom you got in sort of an emotional interaction will trigger that brain part. Avoid them .. I’d say .. eheheh … It should not be triggered too much. Although it is not love nor hate they feel when watching a picture I guess, during those moments normally you wont being studied by some researchers, when you really feel love or hate .. . A picture mostly triggers a vague echo … memory .. at times you would never feel it when you are with those in the picture but only when thinking of them or watching their pictures …..
What is love? What is hate? It does not last. Moments. Unless you start to focus on it in a abnormal way. Want it to be there ..
love and hate are abstract concepts, totally subjective and beyond adequate description through mere words. the brain scan simply shows a reflection of the experience of the subject, like a local map of the reality they are inhabiting. Love and hate can be appreciated as a kind of change of focus, or shift in conscious attention. regardless of the underlying affection or animosity, it affects our interpretation of the world and our tendency to fixate.