Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Men Get a Bigger Kick From Revenge

From the "No Duh" Department, we have this newbite from Reuters (via MSNBC):

Germans have a word for it — schadenfreude — and when it comes to getting pleasure from someone else’s misfortune, men seem to enjoy it more than women. Such is the conclusion reached by scientists at University College London, in what they say is the first neuroscientific evidence of schadenfreude.

Using brain-imaging techniques, they compared how men and women reacted when watching other people suffer pain.

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