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The Fear Factor, How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Callous and Everyone Between

Abigail marsh is a researcher and associate professor of psychology and neuro science at georgetown university. Her research on the brains of people who are both extremely altruistic and extremely callous suggests that they have unusual ways of responding to other people's pherms. With extremely altruistic people seeming to be very sensitive to it. They are good at recognizing when other people are afraid, and their brains are more responsive to it than average. And why is this important? It's important if we want to understand why people do things to orfor other people that are extremely good or extremely cruel.

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