Stanford University researchers have suggested that a lack of response to emotionally meaningful information in the insula, a brain region at the hub of the salience network, can lead to a cascade of effects that result in inappropriate emotional displays.

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For example, if I receive a commission as an affiliate of a website and you were party to a sale we made, the affiliate network owner will soon be able to cascade the payment down in one transaction.

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