The Focus on Neuroscience box "Brain Reward When Making Eye Contact with Attractive People" described an fMRI study in which participants were scanned while looking at photographs of different faces. What were the results of the study?
a. Faces of attractive people looking directly at the viewer decreased activity in the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
b. Faces of ugly and unattractive people looking directly at the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
c. Faces of attractive people looking directly at the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.
d. Faces of attractive people averting their gaze and not making eye contact with the viewer activated the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.

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Answer:

A.Faces of attractive people looking directly at the viewer decreased activity in the ventral striatum, a brain area associated with the expectation of rewards.

Explanation:

An fMRI study of participants scanned while looking at color photos of 40 different faces (some looking at the viewer and some looking away). When we make eye contact with a physically attractive person the ventral striatum of our brains is activated which is an area of the brain that predicts reward.

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