Keyword: prefrontal cortex

Jealousy and the Limits of Self-Awareness September 22, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele

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.