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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is Your Frontal Cortex Fully Online?
We have these sort of sub second time scale responses, which we can modulate or even override if we want to. Your testosterone levels this morning are going to have something to do with how likely you are to decide that somebody with a neutral facial expression actually has this threatening facial expression. And then what was this time scale you associated with the hormone system, with the endocrine system? You know, hours or a bunch of minutes to a few days or so. So playing out in that sort of time course, but that's just a smidgen of what we have to take into account because all we've gotten to is the biology of the last couple of days that have brought you to
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