{"id":6739,"date":"2011-05-28T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2011-05-25T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T20:19:20","slug":"does-gossip-affect-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/05\/does-gossip-affect-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Gossip Affect Your Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6754\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/05\/does-gossip-affect-your-brain\/two-chattering-girls\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6754\" title=\"two chattering girls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gossip2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gossip2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Gossip2-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Using neuro-imaging, scientists are measuring which image a person\u2019s brain will focus on given a choice between two visuals of faces one with negative connotative associations and one with positive or neutral associations.<\/p>\n<p>Which image does the brain choose according to<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5803823\/why-you-are-mesmerized-by-people-youve-heard-bad-things-about\"> io9 Psychology<\/a> ?\u00a0 The results are intriguing to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has shown that people remember negative information better.\u00a0\u00a0 This new study took it a step further testing our brain and determining that the brain responds differently to a person\u2019s face after we hear nasty gossip about someone.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists found that people will stare longer at the face&#8217;s of people they&#8217;ve heard bad things about.\u00a0 They suggest that this brain override for focusing on people we\u2019ve heard bad things about could offer an evolutionary advantage:\u00a0 They commented in the journal Science:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is easy to imagine that this preferential selection for perceiving bad people might protect us from liars and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cheaters by allowing us to view them for longer and explicitly gather more information about their behavior.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2011\/05\/18\/science.1201574\">study <\/a> links gossip as having a measurable effect on our perception of other people.<br \/>\nThe down side to this study is that the desire to stare at victims of gossip is no guarantee that their behavior matches the gossip.\u00a0 They might not be \u201cbad\u201d people.\u00a0 Also, a true criminal would exploit this human weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using neuro-imaging, scientists are measuring which image a person\u2019s brain will focus on given a choice between two visuals of faces one with negative connotative associations and one with positive or neutral associations. Which image does the brain choose according to io9 Psychology ?\u00a0 The results are intriguing to say the least. 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