On Nov 12, 12:38=A0pm, rpautrey2 <rpautr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others' Pain
> November 7, 2008
>
> FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Bullies may actually enjoy the pain
> they cause others, a new study using brain scans suggests.
>
> 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.
>
> "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)."
>
> 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.
>
> More information
>
> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about
> stopping bullying.
>
> SOURCE: University of Chicago, news release, Nov. 7, 2008
>
> http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR200...
I don't mean to be flippant, but did they *really* need to spend money
on studies and perform MRIs to know that that bullies enjoy other
people's pain? Where's the study with the MRIs showing that dogs like
their bellies rubbed?
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