What a revelation. Experts have known this for years.
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> Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others' Pain
> November 7, 2008
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> FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Bullies may actually enjoy the pain
> they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.
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> The part of the brain associated with reward lights up when an
> aggressive teen watches a video of someone hurting another person, but
> not when a non-aggressive youth watches the same clip, according to
> the University of Chicago study, published in the currentBiological
> Psychology.
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> "Aggressive adolescents showed a specific and very strong activation
> of the amygdala and ventral striatum (an area that responds to feeling
> rewarded) when watching pain inflicted on others, which suggested that
> they enjoyed watching pain," researcher Jean Decety, a professor in
> psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, said in a
> university news release. "Unlike the control group, the youth with
> conduct disorder did not activate the area of the brain involved in
> self-regulation (the medial prefrontal cortex and the tem****oparietal
> junction)."
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> The study compared eight 16- to 18-year-old boys with an aggressive
> conduct disorder to a group that didn't show unusual signs of
> aggression. All participants underwent functional magnetic resonance
> imaging (fMRI) while watching videos in which people endured pain
> accidentally, such as when a heavy bowl was dropped on their hands,
> and intentionally, such as when a person stepped on another's foot.
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> More information
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> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about
> stopping bullying.
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> SOURCE: University of Chicago, news release, Nov. 7, 2008
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