What Your Brain Goes Through While Watching ‘The Bachelor’

A Washington Post reporter wanted to see what happens to her brain while she is watching ‘The Bachelor.’ Worried that the show might be making her dumb, Hannah Jewell got hooked up to an MRI at Indiana University in February to find out the truth. Monday night’s finale of the show with Arie Luyendyk Jr. was nothing short of dramatic. Researchers told Jewell that watching scenes of Arie elicited so little activity in her brain that she “may as well have been asleep.”