On Mar 3, 9:45*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 01/03/12 17:00, David Mitchell wrote:

Do try and get on guys, it's really not that difficult.

http://tinyurl.com/6g22l8zhttp://tinyurl.com/2bzzn82

Hmmm.. That's what's wrong with me. I'm a vindictive *******.
I always thought it was:

Perhaps most interesting is the fact that in studies on the
aforementioned “mirror neurons,” women tended to have stronger motor
responses when watching others than men did. One experiment involved
men and women playing games with a partner who was really a lab
assistant. In one group, the men and women enjoyed working together
and playing a game with their partner. Then, while the subjects looked
on, their partners were seemingly subjected to pain. The pain areas in
both the male and female subjects’ brains lit up as they watched their
partners in pain. But in the next group, the partners cheated during
the game with the subjects and played unfairly. This time when the
subjects watched theirs partner in pain, the pain areas of the women’s
brains still lit up in empathy.


But in the men’s brains, it wasn’t the pain areas that lit up, it was
the pleasure areas.
:~D

The men got a kick out of seeing the cheater get their comeuppance.
The men seemed to be more focused on fairness and justice. Again this
is not likely a matter of socialization; the same result has even been
found in similar studies with male mice.