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Dr. Immordino-Yang: How Emotions & Social Factors Impact Learning

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How to React to Social Stimuli

Scientists found that emotions based in pain and those based in virtue recruit the same brain systems. The scientists used MRI scanners to test whether people felt compassion for someone under physical pain or pleasure around admiration for skill by watching somebody do flips on their bike, they say. "What we basically are doing is taking these very primitive physiological regulatory capacities that are essentially there to keep you alive," he says.

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