Study: People Are Hard-Wired To Be Kind And Generous

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Altruism is the principle behind kind and selfless behavior, but is it something humans are hard-wired to do? Two neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, decided to investigate whether or not humans are born with an innate desire to give and care for others, or if the opposite is true. Their findings, published in…

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Bill Formby
8 years ago

Humans have largely been hedonistic for most of their existence. They choose to not just to survive but seek all of the pleasure possible.

Marsha Woerner
8 years ago

Thank you, that’s a really interesting finding. But there have to be different levels (clearly). It’s evident that not everybody is equally altruistic, but I’m sure that the underlying tendency is the only thing that has kept us, as a species, alive!

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