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I don't know why I love pop-psych stuff. Sometimes it just feels good to see something you already suspect affirmed in print, regardless of the source.
For instance, these tidbits are adapted from a book called "The Female Brain." I got them from O.
A baby girl's skills in eye contact and face studying improve more than 400 percent during the first three months of life. Making eye contact is at the bottom of the boy baby's list of interesting things to do.
Men use about 7,000 words a day, women about 20,000.
Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain, providing a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of orgasm.
Oxytocin (the "love hormone") is released in the brain after a 20-second hug from a partner--triggering the brain's trust circuits.
Early on, female ovaries begin producing huge amounts of estrogen that marinate the little girl's brain and spur the growth of brain circuits and centers for connection.
When she's under stress, a woman's desire for sex and physical touch shuts down, perhaps because the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain.
Rejection, it turns out, actually hurts like physical pain because it triggers the same circuits in the brain.
Men notice subtle signs of sadness in a face only 40 percent of the time; women pick up on them 90 percent of the time.
For instance, these tidbits are adapted from a book called "The Female Brain." I got them from O.
A baby girl's skills in eye contact and face studying improve more than 400 percent during the first three months of life. Making eye contact is at the bottom of the boy baby's list of interesting things to do.
Men use about 7,000 words a day, women about 20,000.
Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain, providing a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of orgasm.
Oxytocin (the "love hormone") is released in the brain after a 20-second hug from a partner--triggering the brain's trust circuits.
Early on, female ovaries begin producing huge amounts of estrogen that marinate the little girl's brain and spur the growth of brain circuits and centers for connection.
When she's under stress, a woman's desire for sex and physical touch shuts down, perhaps because the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain.
Rejection, it turns out, actually hurts like physical pain because it triggers the same circuits in the brain.
Men notice subtle signs of sadness in a face only 40 percent of the time; women pick up on them 90 percent of the time.
