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Schadenfreude at the Neuronal Level

Posted 12:47 am by Mike Boyes & filed under Consciousness, Language-Thought, Learning, Neuroscience.

Description: Schadenfreude is a German word which means to take pleasure at the discomfort of others and while this is not something that I would recommend recent work looking at activity in some neurons in the frontal lobes of people’s brains seems to suggest that these neurons are responding to their owners observed experience of… Read more »

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