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Caring about others might make you more depressed, oddly
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Caring about others might make you more depressed, oddly

"Pro-social" brains.

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Ted Bauer
Nov 27, 2017
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Here's a new article entitled "Nice Brains Finish Last." Let's go ahead and set up a few concepts from within it. First we need to define out a few groups:

According to the model of “social value orientation,” humans can be placed into three rough categories, based on their reactions to economic inequity. 60% of people are pro-socials, meaning they prefe…

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