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The Guide to Neuroscience for Social Engineers

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As a social engineer, you spend all of your time manipulating people’s brains. Yet most of the social engineers I meet don’t know the difference between the amygdala and the cerebral cortex. And you need to. So this article is going to give you a quick trip through the human brain. The brain isn’t just a single organism – it’s truly a three-part entity known as the triune brain. The idea of the triune brain was first proposed by Paul MacLean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._MacLean). He proposed that the brain that you and your caveman ancestors shared is not a...