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Now comes the interesting part: the scientists noticed that there was a lot of individual variation during the experiment. Some people had very active sympathetic brains, while others seemed rather uninterested in thinking about the feelings of someone else. The scientists then conducted a survey of altruistic behavior, asking people how likely the

Maling Sense of People [Décoder les gens] de Sam Barondes a eu un fort impact sur ma façon de penser et j’offre parfois un exemplaire de ce livre à un candidat en cours d’embauche.

As the biology of decision making and behavior adoption reveals, people aren’t driven by rationality; they are driven by their emotions—and nothing is more emotional to us than “us.”

But sometimes you can also make an instant judgment about a stranger. Probably not for the loan of your life savings or the pin-number to your bank account, but certainly for a drink at the bar or a bit of help at the roadside. So how do we make that judgment?

Rather, people care about their groups, whether those be racial, regional, religious, or political. The political scientist Don Kinder summarizes the findings like this: “In matters of public opinion, citizens seem to be asking themselves not ‘What’s in it for me?’ but rather ‘What’s in it for my group?’

A region of your prefrontal cortex called the medial prefrontal cortex holds a map of your social networks.10

On dit que tout individu est le disciple conscient ou non d’un philosophe influent.

The evidence that mindfulness works largely by empowering the prefrontal cortex to enhance self-awareness and neocortical integration is consistent with current thinking about insight-oriented and cognitive psychotherapy (Siegel, 2010a). Recent evidence that compassion meditation works by empowering the limbic cortex to enhance self-regulation of s