The Brain Reflection

The PBS documentary, entitled; “The Brain” explored the social aspects of the human brain, and talked about the important factors of social interaction. The human brain thrives on interaction, and is imperative to be social, in order to have a healthy mind. This video revealed interesting studies, cases, and scenarios that we have seen in our past; also topics that we have explored in our textbooks.
Brain activity is dependent on communication and interpretation, thus making interaction vital for survival. From birth, we are born with trust and judgement, a social antenna; this taps into automatic attitudes. Our automatic attitude is how we consciously act on a situation, deriving from environment and experience. Our attitudes influence our …show more content…
The test groups with botox found it more difficult to identify the emotions of the pictured expressions. Being that they physically cannot replicate these expressions, they weren’t able to pick up on the facial recognition, and figure out what their aspects meant. Botox impairs the empathy and emotion from people’s faces and minds, which is a key element in social interaction. The sensation of pain is the main way in how we connect with others, its the same neurons as empathy. When we feel empathy, like seeing someone hurt physically or mentally, we have compassion, we feel for those …show more content…
The feeling of exclusivity triggers a discomforting feeling, usually when people form together through commonalities, and leave you out. A prime example of this in society is with in-groups and out-groups. An in-group, being a group that you identify with, and the out-group being the group that you don 't identify with. We see this particularly in race, gender and religion. Our brain activity is altered based on our different social and ethnic groups, and can create differences. When we identify with one group, we may look down on another one, based on our attitudes and upbringings, even if they were different from before. The best example of this would be what Hitler did to the Jews in the Holocaust. Hitler and his nazis were part of their in-group, and the Jews were technically speaking, the out-group. Compassion differs between in-group and out-group, however the motives of Adolf Hitler can most likely be defined as the acts of a psychopath. Psychopaths have minimal brain activity, and have the inability to see human beings as people, but they see them as objects. Armies of people are created when a being comes into power and diminishes the morality of an individual, when it will eventually spread. They are trained to think that people are only objects, and comes no consequence when they are killed. These acts of cruel and unusual behavior unfortunately did not stop then, and probably never