Huberman highlights that the most significant emotional and neurological effects occur not simply when you silently reflect on what you're thankful for but when you receive genuine gratitude from others or deeply empathize with someone else's experience.
Participants who held authoritarian beliefs exhibited significant brain differences compared to their more centrist peers, particularly in areas linked to social reasoning and emotional regulation.
It may be a problem, then, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey found that Americans are spending more and more time dining apart, numbers the authors cite in their study.
We're having an epidemic. The amount of [people close to me who] feel absolutely OK canceling - and they don't really ever have a reason, it's just that they're tired or whatever - is alarming.