i viewed him as dangerous and probably his mate to so i just
countered what he was saying rationally by shouting at a distance back
it really hurt my brain to do that but it was the logical thing to
do, especially set his mate right and not against me
druggies are as cunning has hell, i can see in hindsight he was trying
to entice me off my property so he could take a swing at me, he's in
a much better position legally if i approach him, especially with a
friendly witness to back him up like his mate
he wasn't concious of it, but he had taken one road and me another
and he resented the contrast
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The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it
responds to winning money and eating chocolate. Being treated fairly turns on the brain's reward circuitry.
"We may be hard-wired to treat fairness as a reward," said study co-
author Matthew D. Lieberman, UCLA associate professor of psychology
and a founder of social cognitive neuroscience.
"Receiving a fair offer activates the same brain circuitry as when we
eat craved food, win money or see a beautiful face," said Golnaz
Tabibnia, a postdoctoral scholar at the Semel Institute for
Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and lead author of the study
The activated brain regions include the ventral striatum and
ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Humans share the ventral striatum
with rats, mice and monkeys, Tabibnia said.
"Fairness is activating the same part of the brain that responds to
food in rats," she said. This is consistent with the notion that
being treated fairly satisfies a basic need, she added.
In the study, subjects were asked whether they would accept or
decline another person's offer to divide money in a particular way.
If they declined, neither they nor the person making the offer would
receive anything. Some of the offers were fair, such as receiving $5
out of $10 or $12, while others were unfair, such as receiving $5 out of $23.
"In both cases, they were being offered the same amount of money, but
in one case it's fair and in the other case it's not," Tabibnia said.
Almost half the time, people agreed to accept offers of just 20 to 30
percent of the total money, but when they accepted these unfair
offers, most of the brain's reward circuitry was not activated; those
brain regions were activated only for the fair offers. Less than 2
percent accepted offers of 10 percent of the total money.
The study group consisted of 12 UCLA students, nine of them female,
with an average age of 21. They had their brains scanned at UCLA's
Ahmanson–Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. The subjects saw photographs
of various people who were said to be making the offers.
"The brain's reward regions were more active when people were given a
$5 offer out of $10 than when they received a $5 offer out of $23,"
Lieberman said. "We call this finding the 'sunny side of fairness'
because it shows the rewarding experience of being treated fairly."
A region of the brain called the insula, associated with disgust, is
more active when people are given insulting offers, Lieberman said.
When people accepted the insulting offers, they tended to turn on a
region of the prefrontal cortex that is associated with emotion regulation, while the insula was less active.
"We're showing what happens in the brain when people swallow their
pride," Tabibnia said. "The region of the brain most associated with
self-control gets activated and the disgust-related region shows less of a response."
"If we can regulate our sense of insult, we can say yes to the
insulting offer and accept the cash," Lieberman said.