The secret to having many friends lies in the frontal brain region

Researchers at the University of Oxford (UK) recently discovered the brain region 'grasping psychology' - a term used to indicate the ability to understand what others are thinking, especially large people who have many friends. friends. This finding shows that reading skills are related to the scope of social relations and brain size.

The prefrontal area directly above the eye is one of the most developed areas of the brain. It plays an important role in forming social skills as well as the ability to judge what others are thinking.

In the study, experts at Oxford University's Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Biology conducted brain scans for 40 volunteers, after asking them to list a list of new recipients within 7 days. before. The study participants, mostly students who graduated from college with the age and opportunity to communicate outside society are the same, also underwent a test on the ability to grasp psychology. Professor Robin Dunbar, head of the research team, said his team found that the people with the most friends also had the left cerebral cortex in front of the largest frontal lobe. This may prove that the 'mind reading' skill is related to the ability to maintain friendships.

Professor Dunbar said that although the factors of time, geography, personality, gender often affect the scope of friend relations, but at least some of the above factors, especially gender, There are also correlations with the 'psychological grasp' skill. In addition, understanding the relationship between brain size and the number of friends helps us understand the mechanism by which humans possess larger brains than other primates, especially the significant development of The front lobe for more than half a million years.