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The mind at work

The Mind at Work: Kay Tye on unlocking the grip of negative emotions

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Published on December 18, 2019

A conversation with neuroscientist Kay Tye about the breakthrough tools helping us understand and target the brain’s emotional circuits.

The amygdala’s informal structure facilitates the lightning fast responses necessary to avoid predators or take advantage of opportunistic rewards.

Tye has identified both hunger and social status as factors that can cause the same stimuli to evoke very different behaviors.

Unfortunately, the same drive that makes the manager push for social cohesion can lead employees towards social isolation.