Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help (tx, JF)

Check out this website I found at nytimes.com

“We’re preprogrammed to reach out,” Dr. de Waal writes. “Empathy is an automated response over which we have limited control.” The only people emotionally immune to another’s situation, he notes, are psychopaths.

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