The twin:
This is definitely
. I mean, to say, I don’t think the
or anything is
us. It’s just what we are like. We are like
.
Narrator:
So does this mean that happiness is something that we are born with? That we either have it or we don’t? Well, the
now say to a large extent that’s true.
Researcher:
We are on the threshold of
in how we study human behavior. For the very first time we can peer inside the
box.
Narrator:
At the University of Wisconsin, Psychiatrist Richard Davidson is trying to photograph
. Using a brain imaging
, Davidson takes a kind of X-ray that shows which section of the brain is most
when you are feeling happy. Brain locus being burn here and that’s the
?
Researcher:
This is
we can come to a snap shot of what the brain is doing during certain
states.
Narrator:
So for person who’s happy and Davidson is watching her brain. He can see where the happiness happens.
Researcher:
We discovered that people
quite dramatically in the extent to which they have the activity in this part of the
, the left frontal
and it turns out that people who have more activities in that area of the brain, are happier.
Narrator:
How do you know?
Researcher:
They can tell us. Another way is we
their
if they smile more we make the inference that they are happier. They are the
who are just very enthusiastic.
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