Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? How we act and who we are in our lives is hugely determined by the expectations of the people around us. The brain helps us be the most social species on the planet. A lot of our brains are devoted to understanding other people. Our brain doesn’t operate in isolation. We constantly learn, take, compare to other brains. Our brains have evolved to be able to effortlessly reason about other people. And emotions, similarly, have evolved as ways that guide our behaviour. So, how exactly do emotions – and the emotions of others – influence our brains?
