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The War For Kindness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

We Just Hate Doing Mean Stuff

Harvard psychologist's fiery cushman found that people even get queazy when they pretend to harm other people. He had his subjects point a toy gun in some one's face or smash the skull of a realistic looking plastic baby. Even though people knew these mean actions were fague they still showed a strong physiological react doing them. Mina has spent the last decade studying what leads people down this awful road towards actively wanting to hurt others....

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