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Psychopaths and Superheroes

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Abbie's Study of Altruistic Kidney Donors

Abby found that her kidney donors were usually humble. They didn't like her hypothesis that they were in any way special, or at the extreme end of some goodness spectrum. But their real sense of humility has been really striking. Just a unwillingness to think of themselves as better than anybody else. Abbi had finally identified a population of anti psychopaths. The most important thing about studying this new population for abby wasn't just that she had discovered a completely new neralya typical population. She heard more about her participants lives and realized that many of them got to this act of kidney donation through lots of smaller acts of generosity. Nobody goes from sort of ground zero to donata kidney almost...

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