Afnan Ghazi

“It was the relative, not absolute, size of the surprise that mattered over a tenfold range of reward.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“the brain becomes literal when we do the flip side of empathy.10 It’s painful watching a hated competitor succeed, and we activate the ACC at that time. Conversely, if he fails, we gloat, feel schadenfreude, get pleasure from his pain, and activate dopaminergic reward pathways. Forget “Your pain is my pain.” Your pain is my gain.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“The shape of women’s faces changes subtly during their ovulatory cycle, and men prefer female faces at the time of ovulation.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“In other cases the challenge is to appreciate how, though human physiology resembles that of other species, we use the physiology in novel ways.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst