You are here:  Home / Topic: Jean Decety

Jean Decety

Latest News
News / Photos

Quotes

Wiki
“ Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation of the amygdala and ventral striatum -- an area of the brain that responds to feeling rewarded -- when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested that they enjoyed watching pain ”
Bullies may enjoy watching others in pain
United Press International
“ This is the first time that functional magnetic resonance imaging scans have been used to study situations that could otherwise provoke empathy ”
Bullies may enjoy watching others in pain
United Press International
“ Consistent with previous functional MRI studies of pain empathy with adults, the perception of other people in pain in children was associated with increased hemodymamic activity in the neural circuits involved in the processing of first-hand experience of pain ”
Kids 'hard-wired' for empathy, not taught
United Press International
“ This study is the first to examine in young children both the neural response to pain in others and the impact of someone causing pain to someone else ”
Kids 'hard-wired' for empathy, not taught
United Press International
“ They have learned through their training and practice to keep a detached perspective; without such a mechanism, performing their practice could be overwhelming or distressing, and as a consequence impair their ability to be of assistance for their patients ”
Doctors control emotions with patients
United Press International
“ This work is important because imitation is a natural procedure. We don't learn to imitate. It is part of our biological nature and we are born to imitate ”
Stories of modern science... from UPI
United Press International
Follow Top News on Twitter @upi_top
Citigroup repayment may have to wait (8 min)
NASA awards technical services contract (28 min)
Crude oil prices slide Monday (40 min)
Markets start week slow, but head up (53 min)
NASA to telecast Soyuz launch, ISS docking
FDA: Link between norovirus and oysters?
Treasury more optimistic on bailout costs
fark
Man arrested for giving his wife the ol' burgerface
"Singing karaoke keeps porn star industry humming"
France in mourning after the death of a 146-year old known for his "demonstrative lovemaking"
If you don't want to walk home in the cold, you could take a bus, or a cab, or even hitchhike. But...
Photoshop this crewwoman caging cones
The War on Christmas™? At my climate change conference? It's more likely than you think