CrazyNeutrino said:

opps should be

Psychology and human chemistry

what do we know about it?

CrazyNeutrino said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

opps should be

Psychology and human chemistry

what do we know about it?

Im wondering if all human emotion is chemically driven

if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

will Psychology then become a true science?

http://io9.com/the-most-popular-antidepressants-are-based-on-a-theory-1686163236

it is known that adrenaline causes fear

so that one human emotion connected to a substance

adrenaline is a stress hormone

love is another human emotion

from some links I found love involves Serotonin, Dopamine and Adrenaline

• it is known that adrenaline causes fear

I’m no human psycho-chemist but, isn’t it the other way around?

If we could isolate the chemicals that cause various emotions I wonder if they could be injected into socially maladjusted people to make them more empathic.

furious said:

• it is known that adrenaline causes fear

I’m no human psycho-chemist but, isn’t it the other way around?

I thought so the flight or fright response

this from Nature
Opioid receptors revealed

Facial attractiveness is a powerful cue that affects social communication and motivates sexual behavior.1, 2, 3 Attractive people are both judged4 and treated5 more positively, reflecting the biased stereotypical notion that ‘beautiful is good’. Indeed, beautiful faces are processed by the limbic reward system6 and according to the same economic principles as non-social rewards. The human reward system has a high density of μ-opioid receptors,8 which have an important role in affiliation and attachment. Here, we causally test whether the healthy human opioid system mediates facial attractiveness preference.

furious said:

• it is known that adrenaline causes fear

I’m no human psycho-chemist but, isn’t it the other way around?

you are correct

it should be the other way around

Cymek said:

If we could isolate the chemicals that cause various emotions I wonder if they could be injected into socially maladjusted people to make them more empathic.

be great if they could

>>Facial attractiveness is a powerful cue that affects social communication and motivates sexual behaviour

Who would have thought hey?

Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces

You probably saw dozens of people’s faces today, many more if you live in a city. You may not have been conscious of it, but you were subtly judging every one by its beauty. Your eyes are drawn to more attractive faces, and the almost inescapable result is that more attractive people have advantages in almost every aspect of life, from job interviews to prison sentencing. But what drives us to crave beauty? According to one theory, gazing upon beauty stimulates the brain’s μ-opioid receptors (MOR), thought to be a key part of our biochemical reward system

more…

another thing is that if connection is verified it will also have implications for art and aesthetics

that there is a chemical connection involved

link

Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces

>if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

what’s with the chemical-centric view of it all

CrazyNeutrino said:

Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces

You probably saw dozens of people’s faces today, many more if you live in a city. You may not have been conscious of it, but you were subtly judging every one by its beauty. Your eyes are drawn to more attractive faces, and the almost inescapable result is that more attractive people have advantages in almost every aspect of life, from job interviews to prison sentencing. But what drives us to crave beauty? According to one theory, gazing upon beauty stimulates the brain’s μ-opioid receptors (MOR), thought to be a key part of our biochemical reward system

more…

another thing is that if connection is verified it will also have implications for art and aesthetics

that there is a chemical connection involved

The bit about prison sentencing is interesting I wonder if judges and magistrates are aware of this and are impartial regardless, I do notice that a lot of prisoners are what society would deem unattractive.

transition said:

>if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

what’s with the chemical-centric view of it all

Im not trying to suggest that there is an all chemical-centric view

Im suggesting that chemicals in the human body are playing an important part in how the human body responds to its environment

like suddenly seeing a tiger running towards you

seeing the tiger induces an adrenaline response yes?

Cymek said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces

You probably saw dozens of people’s faces today, many more if you live in a city. You may not have been conscious of it, but you were subtly judging every one by its beauty. Your eyes are drawn to more attractive faces, and the almost inescapable result is that more attractive people have advantages in almost every aspect of life, from job interviews to prison sentencing. But what drives us to crave beauty? According to one theory, gazing upon beauty stimulates the brain’s μ-opioid receptors (MOR), thought to be a key part of our biochemical reward system

more…

another thing is that if connection is verified it will also have implications for art and aesthetics

that there is a chemical connection involved

The bit about prison sentencing is interesting I wonder if judges and magistrates are aware of this and are impartial regardless, I do notice that a lot of prisoners are what society would deem unattractive.

you might be onto something

if the human brain does reward itself for looking at beautiful faces then something must also be going on for ugly faces, but what the brain does for ugly faces I don’t know

more research needs to be done

CrazyNeutrino said:

transition said:

>if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

what’s with the chemical-centric view of it all

Im not trying to suggest that there is an all chemical-centric view

Im suggesting that chemicals in the human body are playing an important part in how the human body responds to its environment

like suddenly seeing a tiger running towards you

seeing the tiger induces an adrenaline response yes? an emotion caused by what the person is looking at

a man seeing a beautiful woman induces a chemical response which is an emotion caused by what the person is looking at

CrazyNeutrino said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

transition said:

>if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

what’s with the chemical-centric view of it all

Im not trying to suggest that there is an all chemical-centric view

Im suggesting that chemicals in the human body are playing an important part in how the human body responds to its environment

like suddenly seeing a tiger running towards you

seeing the tiger induces an adrenaline response yes? an emotion caused by what the person is looking at

a man seeing a beautiful woman induces a chemical response which is an emotion caused by what the person is looking at

like hearing Tony Abbot doing a gaffe on the radio or tv

induces an emotion caused by the environment, the environment being the radio or tv and Tony Abbot making the gaffe

I can accept too that emotions can be driven within a persons mind and not an environment

like remembering tony abbott making a gaffe and then getting angry because of a memory

and it might turn out that not all emotions are chemically driven

but created by different means

but, I’m a mixed media artist not a scientist

I think psychology should look to biology and chemistry a bit more for answers

CrazyNeutrino said:

and it might turn out that not all emotions are chemically driven

but created by different means

but, I’m a mixed media artist not a scientist

I think psychology should look to biology and chemistry a bit more for answers

Isn’t that what psychiatry does ?

Cymek said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

and it might turn out that not all emotions are chemically driven

but created by different means

but, I’m a mixed media artist not a scientist

I think psychology should look to biology and chemistry a bit more for answers

Isn’t that what psychiatry does ?

doesn’t psychology take emotions into account?

if most emotions are chemically driven by various means external or internal

wouldn’t it be of interest to psychology, psychiatry doctors and medicine in general?

CrazyNeutrino said:

transition said:

>if Psychology accepts that human emotion is chemically driven

what’s with the chemical-centric view of it all

Im not trying to suggest that there is an all chemical-centric view

Im suggesting that chemicals in the human body are playing an important part in how the human body responds to its environment

like suddenly seeing a tiger running towards you

seeing the tiger induces an adrenaline response yes?

what does ‘pshychology accepts’ mean, specifically “accepts”.

I wouldn’t buy too much into the adrenaline flight/fight thing, there’re readiness changes for time-sensitive situations, though ‘threat/ening’ some of these may be, adrenaline also works for lesser things that involve extreme effort and determination, and too cognitive efforts that may go to furious determination, these similarly can be mis/understood to be anger.

When I’m exhausted and have to do things that require great effort (and motivation) I am sure adrenaline is involved.

When you use the word ‘environment’ too you might want to differentiate internal from external (acknowledge that internal) that your body also has and maintains an internal evironment (homeostasis – milieu intérieur), you’d be forgiven for neglecting it though, not being something the instruments of ideology are famous for drawing attention to.

yes, the environment is external

>yes, the environment is external

your speaking from an internal environment

transition said:

>yes, the environment is external

your speaking from an internal environment

thinking is internal

typing it is external

>typing it is external

what’s funny about a joke?

here is another article on dopamine “reward”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-melt-at-puppy-pictures-1428504897

in this case babies

transition said:

>typing it is external

what’s funny about a joke?

?

CrazyNeutrino said:

here is another article on dopamine “reward”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-melt-at-puppy-pictures-1428504897

in this case babies

Brain-imaging studies show that looking at baby faces activates dopamine “reward” pathways in the brain: The cuter the baby, the higher the activation. (I’m full of empathy for the parents whose babies are used as examples of “not cute” in these studies.)

>?

give me an idea what you think it is that makes a joke funny…

transition said:

>?

give me an idea what you think it is that makes a joke funny…

can you tell me in a poem?

>can you tell me in a poem?

take the stock frame of reference shift
wanders ‘long you thinking it about this
then all a sudden it’s ‘bout that get gist
amusin’ is it internal mental gymnastic

transition said:

>can you tell me in a poem?

take the stock frame of reference shift
wanders ‘long you thinking it about this
then all a sudden it’s ‘bout that get gist
amusin’ is it internal mental gymnastic

an association to the reference?