The Science of Emotions and Attraction

Your brain is actively lying to you about what makes you happy and who you love. It’s called the

durability bias, and it means you overestimate how long you’ll feel sad after a breakup

or happy after a raise. Speaking of love, you can actually trick someone into

liking you by taking them on a scary date. The bridge study proved that we confuse

adrenaline from fear with sexual attraction. And if you ever need help in a crowd,

point at one specific person. Otherwise, the bystander effect kicks in and everyone

just assumes someone else will save you. We are basically just biological robots running on

glitchy software.