Every day we hear about rational, “normal” people snapping in a domestic dispute, barroom brawl, or road-rage attack. The right trigger in the right circumstances can unleash a fit of rage in almost anyone. Surprisingly, the same “rage circuits” can enable us to act heroically and altruistically before our conscious brain realizes what we are doing. A stranger dives into a frigid lake to save a drowning child … a soldier tackles a suicide bomber … a doctor dives under a bus to help a trapped accident victim. Why We Snap by Dr. Douglas Fields reveals the secrets of the rage circuit and how we can control it to reduce violence and harness it for the pursuit of social harmony in our troubled world. Devonte Washington, 15, was waiting on the platform of a Washington DC Metro subway station with his mother and two sisters headed to a barber shop to get a haircut for Easter Sunday church service. The young man glanced up at a stranger, … READ FULL POST
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Why do ordinary, healthy people inexplicably commit acts of HEROISM?Neuroscience explains the positive side of the brain’s rage circuit. -
Why do ordinary, healthy people inexplicably commit acts of VIOLENCE?Neuroscience explains the "rage circuit" and how individuals can control it.