Jealousy and the Limits of Self-Awareness
September 22, 2010
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience
Jealousy strips away self-awareness faster than almost any other emotion, and Armand DiMele argues that is no accident. He traces the biological roots of jealousy, explains the neuroscience of introspection (gray and white matter in the prefrontal cortex), and shows why even sophisticated people collapse into blame when hormones or threat responses take over.