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If you react easily to emotional cues, your brain is ‘highly tuned’

Posted by / June 25, 2014

How your brain responds to happy and sad faces could be an indicator of how innately emphatic you are, researchers say. Previous studies have suggested that sensory processing sensitivity is an innate trait associated with greater sensitivity, or responsiveness, to environmental and social stimuli.

“This is physical evidence within the brain that highly sensitive individuals respond especially strongly to social situations that trigger emotions, in this case of faces being happy or sad,” says Arthur Aron, a professor in psychology at Stony Brook University.

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