The amygdala and fear are not the same thing
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 06:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated displaying fear, when they showed him pictures of black people. This link between the amygdala and fear especially a fear of others unlike us, has gone too far, not only in pop culture, but also in psychological science, say the authors of a new paper which will be published in the February issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.