I'm Monique Evans with today's healt hews.
Could science show who is truly generous or
just out for themselves?
Images of the human brain could reveal the
answer.
Scientists at the University of Zurich in
Switzerland have discovered that interactions
between the brain's regions can show private
motivations behind people's actions, including
whether someone is acting kindly from a place
of true empathy or a place of expecting something
in return.
The brain scans from this study found that
empathy-based and reciprocity-based generosity
produced different interactions between regions
of the brain that activate during altruistic
behavior.
A psychologist at the University of Toronto
told Scientific American in an interview that
this study could bring researchers one step
closer to finding out if generosity can be
a learned behavior.
For dailyRx, I'm Monique Evans
