frontal lobe damage emotion decision-making

Emotion can help people make good decisions

People with damage to part of the frontal brain could still compare choices logically, yet they often made poor real-life decisions after losing normal emotional responses. The finding suggests that emotion can help reasoning instead of simply getting in its way.

Earth’s part of the Milky Way may be unusually calm

The Solar System stays mostly between the Milky Way’s main spiral arms instead of often crossing them. Spiral arms contain more supernovae, radiation, and strong gravitational effects, so staying between them may have given life longer periods of relative stability.

Greenlandic Inuit could settle disputes with song duels

In traditional drum-song performances, Greenlandic Inuit participants satirized one another in song duels to settle conflicts. The performances also served entertainment and spiritual purposes.

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Emotion can help people make good decisions

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