If It Feels Good to Be Good // canavarlar

yengeç sepeti

böyle bir testi türkiyede yapsalar ne çıkardı cok merak ediyorum

Moll and Jordan Grafman,
neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health,
had been scanning the brains of volunteers
as they were asked to think about a scenario
involving either donating a sum of money to charity
or keeping it for themselves.

The results were showing that
when the volunteers placed the interests of
others before their own,
the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain
that usually lights up in response to food or sex.
Altruism, the experiment suggested,
was not a superior moral faculty
that suppresses basic selfish urges
but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701056.html

bir diğer araştırma

Knutson, K.M., Mah, L., Manly, C.F., and Grafman, J. (InPress) Neural
Correlates of Automatic Beliefs about Gender and Race, Human Brain
Mapping. Full Text/Abstract

http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=83