Brain Regions Responsible for Optimism Located

TaeKwonDood writes "The brain region responsible for believing you can seduce Giselle Bundchen or make a YouTube clone for bobble-head doll movies successful has been located. Surprisingly, it is not in a bottle of Jager, it's in the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala."

Comments

excellent...

[Macrosoft0]

now i must suppress those regions so i dont get too optimistic and do something stupid, like "first post" on an article, or something.

What is the use

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the use of all these discoveries. The world is going to end soon due to global warming.

Re:What is the use

[moderatorrater]

I don't know, the evidence isn't conclusive, and there are at least 5 scientists at Exxon-Mobile who think it's bull.

That's nice.

[theskipper]

Too bad we'll never be able to do anything with this discovery.

Sigh.

Re:That's nice.

[n dot l]

Too bad we'll never be able to do anything with this discovery. Pfft. I've already got a plan:
Step 1: Grab Helmet God.
Step 2: Upgrade it to stimulate the optimism center of the brain as well.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!!

Re:That's nice.

[Joe the Lesser]

I've got a good feeling about it!

Re:That's nice.

[fortunada]

Don't you mean:

Step 4: Prophet!

Are you Deluded?!

[imstanny]

The brain region responsible for believing you can seduce Giselle Bundchen or make a YouTube clone for bobble-head doll movies successful has been located. Firstly, there's a difference between optimism and delusion. Secondly... forget it, Giselle is here for a booty call.

optimism?

[Anonymous Coward]

So I guess this is the brain region that makes some people think their article summaries going to end up perceived as clever or funny.

Damn

[MSTCrow5429]

Mine's missing.

Re:A book about pessimism

[Anonymous Coward]

In a team situation, the optimist always has someone to blame when the project fails.
After all, contingency plans are the job of the pessimist.

Amygdala?

[jcr]

Wasn't she the hot chick in that star wars movie?

-jcr

Re:Assumptions

[Rui del-Negro]

Optimists believe we live in the best possible world. Pessimists fear that might be true.

pfft

[sh3l1]

pfft... they will never be able to find the pessimistic part of the brain.

Re:so...

[Trouvist]

There's a better way of looking at it... optimism is the defect.

As a pessimist, I personally am happier than every optimist I know. Here's why I'm always happy:
1) If I expect the worst, and someone excellent happens, then awesome!
And now the good part:
2) If i expect the worst, and it actually does happen, then at least I was right!

it is totally opposite for optimists, if someone goes wrong then not only are the wrong, but they are also unhappy, my way you always win

Tags work well

[tsa]

I think the tag feature that /. has works very well. If I had heard about this article being on /., I certainly would use the search criteria "science, overactiverostralanteriorcingulateandamygdala, datewithgisele, datewithgiselebundchen, giselebundchen". I wouldn't know how to find this particular article in any other way.

Re:Aha

[Edgyboy]

No, no, you got it all wrong. You feeling sad only means that she destroyed the part that makes you happy. If you have a strange but persistent feeling that your brain is going to grow back, your rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala are a-okay!