Tag: empathy
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Endotoxin/LPS makes humans callous and unempathetic
It is hard to accept that something as ubiquitous as LPS may have such profound effects on…
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Anti-anxiety drugs, high cortisol reduce empathy
This is a study that has a lot of relevance for virtually every person living in a…
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SSRI drugs, not depression, destroy empathy
Yet another medical myth gets busted today. A common dogma in psychiatry is that one of the…
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Testosterone does NOT impair empathy in men
I am sure most readers are quite familiar with the cliche that testosterone (T) is what drives…
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Goats are “excellent listeners”, can recognize and respond to the feelings of their peers
Apparently, the expression “dull as a sheep/goat” needs to be revised. According to the study below, goats…
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Rats react the same way to observing pain in others as if they experience it themselves
So much for animals lacking empathy, or being “selfish machines” as famously coined by that sociopath Richard…