Secret Life Of The Grown-Up Brain - Plot & Excerpts
Judgment. Wisdom. Do We Really Know What We’re Talking About? There’s an argument to be made that the true test of a human brain is its ability to figure out other human brains. Not long ago, when I mentioned that I was writing a book about the middle-aged brain to a friend, her first question was about the younger, trainee brains she had at home. As a mother of three girls, all in adolescence, she wanted to know, in a wishful way, only one thing: Does judgment improve? Do we get better at dealing with other humans, at making the right call? Yes—and such insight is rooted in brain biology. We can now detect—even watch—mature judgment grow in our brains. The connections that help us identify the bad guys or the wrong road get stronger, and they may be at their strongest at middle age. Thomas Hess, a psychologist at North Carolina State University, has done dozens of studies of what he calls “social expertise,”
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