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Researchers find how areas of brain are associated with helping decisions
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers found that a particular brain region--which they identified through a study of patients who had brain damage to that region--controls our willingness to assist others.
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Study finds how infants behaviour modulate based on their social interacti
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Humans need society and social contact to survive. The capacity of a person to participate in intricate sociocultural organisations is crucial to that individual's well-being. Humans depend on social contact with other humans for social and cultural learning, later adaption to various social
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Study finds moral illusions can deceive our decision-making abilities
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Linkoping, [Sweden], September 14 (ANI): Just as optical illusions can deceive sight and present a distorted representation of reality, moral illusions can deceive our decision-making abilities and cause us to become more selfish. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis recently given a
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Altruistic behaviour in empathetic people reduces due to stress hormone: S
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 23 (ANI): The findings of recent research suggest that the stress hormone cortisol reduces altruistic behaviour and alters activity in brain regions linked to social decision making. However, this happens only in people who are better at imagining others' mental states
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