Eli5: What happens in the brain when we feel guilt-tripped?
In: Biology
The honest answer is nobody knows.
We do know that when you feel guilty some levels of chemicals go up and down in different parts of the brain, especially the front bit, but that’s it.
Precisely what is happening is anyone’s guess.
The same holds true for anything else the brain does, we know far less about the human brain than we like to pretend.
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