The Origin of Hatred

August 31, 2009

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

A new article at Scientific American tells use that 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?

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