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Social Intelligence Episode Part 2 - Social Neuroscience
This is Part 1 of your Social Intelligence Workshop.
We will introduce Social Intelligence by first covering these 3 Topics :
1. Social Brain - how humans are wired to connect
2. Social Neuroscience - what happens in our brains when we do connect
3. Social Intelligence - its responsiveness and influence
So let's begin.
Part 2. Social Neuroscience
What transpires when we connect
How does the brain drive social behaviour and in turn how does our social world influence our brain and biology? Between psychologists and neuroscientists, through the MRI, they found out which parts of the brain light up during a human moment like hearing the voice of an old friend, or what happens in the brain of a person gazing at someone they like, or of someone they dislike.
Let's talk about our Biology. We have T-cells, in the human brain, that affect the immune system's foot soldiers to help us fight bacteria and viruses. We also have the Spindle Cells the human brain that act the most rapidly, guiding us to make snap social decisions. And we have the Mirror Neurons that sense both the move another person is about to make and their feelings to prepare us to imitate the movement and feel with them. Our brain also secretes pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine when we find things pleasurable. Involvement in a distressing relationship increases stress hormones to levels that damage certain genes that control virus-fighting cells.
That means our relationships mold not just our experience but our biology. Nourishing relationships have a beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones act like a slow poison in our bodies.
The Social Brain represents the only biological system in our bodies that becomes influenced by the internal state of people we are with. All other biological systems regulate their activity in response to signals from within the body, not outside. Our Social Brain orchestrate our interactions as well as our thoughts and feelings about people and relationships. Whenever we connect with someone face to face, voice to voice, skin to skin, with someone else, our social brains interlock.
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By Jardine OngThis is Part 1 of your Social Intelligence Workshop.
We will introduce Social Intelligence by first covering these 3 Topics :
1. Social Brain - how humans are wired to connect
2. Social Neuroscience - what happens in our brains when we do connect
3. Social Intelligence - its responsiveness and influence
So let's begin.
Part 2. Social Neuroscience
What transpires when we connect
How does the brain drive social behaviour and in turn how does our social world influence our brain and biology? Between psychologists and neuroscientists, through the MRI, they found out which parts of the brain light up during a human moment like hearing the voice of an old friend, or what happens in the brain of a person gazing at someone they like, or of someone they dislike.
Let's talk about our Biology. We have T-cells, in the human brain, that affect the immune system's foot soldiers to help us fight bacteria and viruses. We also have the Spindle Cells the human brain that act the most rapidly, guiding us to make snap social decisions. And we have the Mirror Neurons that sense both the move another person is about to make and their feelings to prepare us to imitate the movement and feel with them. Our brain also secretes pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine when we find things pleasurable. Involvement in a distressing relationship increases stress hormones to levels that damage certain genes that control virus-fighting cells.
That means our relationships mold not just our experience but our biology. Nourishing relationships have a beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones act like a slow poison in our bodies.
The Social Brain represents the only biological system in our bodies that becomes influenced by the internal state of people we are with. All other biological systems regulate their activity in response to signals from within the body, not outside. Our Social Brain orchestrate our interactions as well as our thoughts and feelings about people and relationships. Whenever we connect with someone face to face, voice to voice, skin to skin, with someone else, our social brains interlock.