Why the Right Celebrates When People Suffer
In 2009, neuroscientist Hidehiko Takahashi at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Japan published a study in Science, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the world, that showed for the first time what happens inside the human brain when someone takes pleasure in another person’s suffering.
Takahashi put 19 volunteers inside an fMRI scanner and told them stories about fictional people. Some of these fictional people had better jobs, more money, and more success than the volunteers. Others were described as average. Then Takahashi told the volunteers that…
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