Andrew Huberman· PhD
The subjects in this study in many ways are receiving a sense of gratitude, but through the narrative of one of these other subjects.
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The subjects in this study in many ways are receiving a sense of gratitude, but through the narrative of one of these other subjects.
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Now, if you have an experience of receiving gratitude, or a story that's very potent for you, it becomes a sort of shortcut into the gratitude network, these prosocial networks. Meaning, the activation of these circuits becomes almost instantaneous.
And I find this remarkable, because what this really means is that the circuits for gratitude are such that we can exchange gratitude. We can actually observe someone else getting help, someone else giving help, and that observation of our species doing that for one another allows us to experience the feeling of a genuine chemical and neural circuit activation lift, if you will.