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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Are You Bringing Out the Good in Others?

There's a region of the brain that you might loosely call the reward circuitry. It involves pla regions that produce dopamen, like the ventral tegmental area in the nucleus ocumbents. And what new studies are finding is that that circuit is activated when you feel love and help somebody out. Adly: "Now we have an explanation of why hih gen behaviors make us feel happy"

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