From Caltech & UCLA
Human responses to situations both good and bad may be less tied to our character than the wiring in our brains and genes, according to two different, cross-town studies. In Pasadena, researchers have images that they say shows the brain believes in equality, specifically that the organ responds more strongly when a poor person receives a reward than when a rich person does. While previous work had found an innate human dislike of unequal pay, the brain scans suggest that humans may be more hard-wired than had been believed to react to inequality. Meantime, in Westwood, as part of work that may prove to be of great value in figuring how genes react with the environment, researchers say they have found a biochemical link between misery and death. They also say that some individuals have a gene variant that breaks that link and that may make them more resilient in adverse situations.
Scans show brain lights up in a reaction to inequality
New understanding on genes,environment shows link between misery, death
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