Men more likely than women Schadenfreude

The United States "Nature" magazine's website published a study report shows that, when they saw their ownHateWho experienced pain, men more likely than women gloat over.



Researchers at University College London, and Claes 塔尼亚辛格 Stephen recently convened 16 male volunteers and 16 female volunteers did an experiment. In the experiment, the volunteers themselves are also volunteers with a number of "actors" do a game. In the course of the game, some "actors" playing by the rules, while others are deliberately cheating. Throughout the experiment, these volunteers do not know the truth.



Next, the staff in the 32 volunteers before the right to comply with rules of the game's "actors" and cheating are punishable by a slight electric shock, respectively, while these volunteers had brain scans.



Scan results showed that when the rules of the "actors", when subjected to electric shocks, male and female volunteers, volunteers with the pain-related brain regions of reaction, indicating that they are sympathetic to those who suffered electric shocks. When the cheater subjected to electric shocks, the women volunteers will continue to feel sympathy, but the male volunteers, am glad.



Stephen said the researchers, although they did not know this kind of psychological differences between men and women due to congenital or acquired reasons, but this conclusion helps to explain why the history is always by men to punish the offender.