Do you also have such a friend that every little thing you do that doesn't seem good to him causes him to immediately move away to extreme negative scenarios?
He apparently has no control over it, scientists have discovered.
Claude helped us to teach right about the people who never teach right about others.
A new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found unique patterns of brain activity that may explain why some people tend to assume that others' actions are motivated by hostile intentions.
This tendency, known as the "hostility attribution bias," causes people to interpret even harmless behaviors as malicious.
The researchers examined the activity in the prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain involved in decision making, emotional regulation and interpreting social situations.
Using audio scenarios of hypothetical negative social interactions, the researchers were able to distinguish between participants with high or low levels of hostility attribution bias based on the activity in the area in question, with 75% accuracy.
"The prefrontal cortex integrates sensory information about the external world with internal states and beliefs," explains senior study author Yuan Chang Leung of the University of Chicago.
"It helps to control the way we react to social situations based on already defined biases."
In other words, in people who tend to see bad intentions everywhere, the cerebral cortex overrides reality in favor of the hostile narrative they expect.
This consolidates their bias over time, causing aggressive reactions and problems in relationships.
On the other hand, the study found that participants with lower hostility attribution bias scored higher on "attributional complexity"—the ability to consider multiple complex explanations for people's behaviors.
"Cultivating attributional complexity could be a potential strategy for reducing hostile attributional bias, and ultimately promoting healthier social interactions," say the researchers.
By uncovering the brain mechanisms behind the phenomenon, the scientists hope that more targeted interventions can be developed to reduce biases and hostile behaviors.
This can bring widespread mental health and relationship benefits for people with the condition, and those who live alongside such people.
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