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Study: Men Enjoy Seeing Bad People Suffer
Fox News ^ | 01/18/2006 | AP

Posted on 01/18/2006 1:18:00 PM PST by CAWats

Study: Men Enjoy Seeing Bad People Suffer Wednesday, January 18, 2006

NEW YORK — Bill Clinton said he felt others' pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.

In contrast, women's brains showed they do empathize with the cheater's pain and don't get a kick out it.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: badpeople; brain; enjoy; males; men; sexdifferences; suffer
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To: saveliberty
"LOL! So Fox News is insinuating Bill Clinton lied that he couldn't even feel our pain!"

no I think they're insinuating that he was our first female President.

41 posted on 01/18/2006 1:35:29 PM PST by marlon
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To: apackof2
That generalization is bigger than the Atlantic!

Granted, it *is* a generalization. We'll have to dicker over the size of it though.

I was lucky enough to marry an "exceptional" woman.

42 posted on 01/18/2006 1:35:59 PM PST by AngryJawa (NRA)
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To: CAWats

Duh, that's why, rather than see gay cowboy movies, we want to see an action flick with the bad guy getting his due.


43 posted on 01/18/2006 1:36:46 PM PST by doug from upland (NEW YORK TIMES -- traitorous b*st*rds)
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To: apackof2

Soitenly!


44 posted on 01/18/2006 1:37:43 PM PST by linda_22003
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Enjoy!

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45 posted on 01/18/2006 1:39:57 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: SlowBoat407

Top 30 facts about Jack Bauer

#! Fact: If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.

http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?topthirty


46 posted on 01/18/2006 1:40:26 PM PST by dawn53
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To: AngryJawa
I was lucky enough to marry an "exceptional" woman.

Oh good, I love a happy ending

47 posted on 01/18/2006 1:41:06 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: apackof2

Indeed. I think The Shield is a better show than 24, but that's just me...


49 posted on 01/18/2006 1:45:05 PM PST by Terpfen (Miami goes 9-7! Go Saban!)
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To: CAWats
My family will be shocked to hear I have masculine traits but I love Jack!


50 posted on 01/18/2006 1:49:53 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

He's shooting the guy in the nuts?


51 posted on 01/18/2006 1:51:52 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Terpfen
Hubba, Hubba!

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52 posted on 01/18/2006 1:53:41 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: apackof2
Does the deer have any doe?

Yeah, two bucks!

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk...I'm also a woman!
53 posted on 01/18/2006 1:53:45 PM PST by ishabibble (UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL)
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To: CAWats
Bill Clinton said he felt others' pain. But a new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all.

Yes, but how would you feel if Bill Clinton got a mild electric shock?

54 posted on 01/18/2006 1:55:00 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: apackof2

Since the come on different nights, I'll take them both.

55 posted on 01/18/2006 1:55:55 PM PST by najida (OK, so we have this problem with the paint cans sticking to the floor.....)
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To: pissant
They needed a study for this?

"Philip Jackson, who studies brain systems responsible for empathy at the University of Laval in Quebec City in Canada, said he found the sex differences intriguing and worth following up on." Study Finds More Studies Necessary

56 posted on 01/18/2006 1:56:23 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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To: ishabibble; linda_22003
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk...I'm also a woman!

Ha!

Freepettes for the Stooges

57 posted on 01/18/2006 1:56:39 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: apackof2

Sorry, no sexual interest in Detective Mackey here. I just think Chiklis is a great actor. I don't know how they got Glen Close on that series, but she's doing a pretty good job too.


58 posted on 01/18/2006 1:56:52 PM PST by Terpfen (Miami goes 9-7! Go Saban!)
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To: pissant
They needed a study for this?

Tomorrow's study: Sun comes up in East...

59 posted on 01/18/2006 1:56:57 PM PST by GOPJ (A) Cub reporters acting as stenographers for a manipulative top FBI agent? Q) What is Watergate?)
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To: CAWats

That must be why I enjoy Roadrunner cartoons.


60 posted on 01/18/2006 1:57:12 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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