How the “happy hormone” can impact our social interactions?
Dopamine is a chemical messenger - often known as the
'happy hormone' - that carries signals controlling mental and emotional responses in the brain.
In a new study, scientists showed that manipulating the levels of
dopamine affected
emotion recognition, which is fundamental to our everyday social interactions.
More specifically, the research showed that while people with low baseline levels of the chemical messenger became better at emotion recognition after receiving a dopamine boost, those with higher baseline levels actually became worse.
These findings suggest that dopamine may influence emotion recognition via its effects on temporal processing, providing new directions for future research on typical and atypical emotion recognition.
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