Tag: Psychology Today

Neuroscience: The Reason Introverts Might ‘Think Too Much:’ Psychology Today

“…Similarly, Helgoe explains, neuroimaging studies found that in introverts’ brains, activation is centered in the frontal cortex — the part of the brain that is responsible for remembering, planning, decision making, and problem solving. These are, of course, activities that require turning one’s focus and attention inward, as introverts are prone to do — and…

It’s An Acquired Taste: How Knowledge Drives Aesthetics | Arthur P. Shimamura Ph.D.: Psychology Today

“Bebop, abstract art, sushi…people often say that it takes time to appreciate such things—that they are acquired tastes. Psychologically speaking, what does it mean for something to be uninteresting or even distasteful at first but then with time, gain in appreciation? In art, many styles when first encountered looked so perverse that their very status…