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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain’s Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices

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The Evolution of Empathy

The term empathy has a lot of different meanings to different people. I'm using it basically to mean one member of a species manifests some behavior that indicates it is being influenced by the emotional state or what we call the effective state, effective with an A, of another member of that species in its immediate environment. For human interactions, we were talking about friendships. Any of us who watch a close friend suffer, it's hard. You want to do anything you can to help them. That's empathy.

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