MAG Mingling

    Evolutionary Psychology (Brody)

    MAG Mingling
    by Robin Walker, 11/12/98

    The following by Dr. Walker was originally posted on the Applied Ethology Listserve, 11/12/98

    "Hello Big-Boy" she hissed.

    I guess I was dozing.

    She had slid silently into the fMRI seat next to me.

    Her screen glowed to life as I stared at mine trying to suppress the flicker in my PVN.

    "Hmm! I guess you notice me?" she purred.

    Damn! I was getting a lateral Amgydalan glow.

    She would see my rising panic.

    And why not?

    I could see the cold fire in her medial frontal lobes and the cool absence of emotion anywhere in the limbic gyrus.

    This woman was a predator!

    I had to get out.

    Never mind blowing my monthly fMRI allotment.

    My screen was alight with danger!

    I wasn't going to mingle with this babe!

    Before she could reach the trigger of my inline P.E.T. pulsimeter I was headed for the night and an ancient Bar where you could look into someone's' eyes and lie the night away.....


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