The OFC—particularly on the right side of the brain—has a unique influence on social and emotional behaviors, including attachment (love) relationships. It is deeply concerned with the assessment of interactions between the self and others and plays a ceaseless (but fundamentally life-essential) game of “Who loves, who loves me not?” It even gauges “How much does he/she love me or dislike me?” While the explicit meanings of words spoken are decoded in specialized portions of the left hemisphere, the right OFC interprets the emotional content of communications—the other person’s body language,
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