Men may be 'natural avengers'.Revenge may be far sweeter for men than it is for women, suggests a study released in January January: see month. . When mate test subjects witnessed people they perceived as "bad guys" being zapped with a mild electrical shock, their M.R.I. scans lit up in primitive brain areas associated with reward, but their brains' empathy empathy Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The empathic actor or singer is one who genuinely feels the part he or she is performing. centers stayed dull Women watching the same punishment showed no pleasure response, but their brains' empathy centers glowed. Tania
University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British , says that the men "seemed to feet satisfaction when unfair people were given what they perceived as deserved physical punishment." |
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