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Why We're Mean to Our Future Selves (LIVE from Boston)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Role of Brain Regions in Social Thought

When I'm interacting with you right now and making sense of your questions or trying to come up with words that you will understand, I'm involved in a very elaborate, complex understanding of what your mind is doing. And this turns out to be a fascinating aspect of the kinds of things humans can accomplish. The story of the brain regions that are involved in social thought actually comes from multiple directions. So one interpretation of this is that humans by default have brains that are interested in other people. That we're sort of primed to think about and interact with others.

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