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Empathy and the Brain - What Makes us Feel for Others?

July 14, 2023

Empathy doesn’t just help those in need, it helps us too. But where does empathy originate? And do psychopaths experience empathy differently.

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One researcher is studying what happens in the brain when we empathize, and discovered that we can shut empathy off.

 

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