- Andhra Pradesh: CPI state secretary K Narayana says all tainted ministers should resign like the two ministers who quit two days ago
- Assam: Ex-CM Bhumidhar Barman escapes unhurt when his boat capsized in Brahmaputra river near Chitalmari, say police
- Bihar: 22-year-old woman gang-raped, boyfriend beaten up by 3 men in Banka; two persons arrested, say police
- Chennai: Passenger train service from Salem to Karur via Namakkal to begin from May 25, says Salem railway divisional manager
- Delhi: Actor Shayan Munshi, ballistic expert PS Manocha to be charged with perjury in the Jessica Lall murder case, rules HC
- Gujarat: State government hikes dearness allowance of its employees by 8 percent with effect from January 2013
- Haryana: Man crushed to death by a speeding truck on Barad Road in Kurukshetra; driver absconding, say police
- Himachal Pradesh: Expenditure monitoring cell set up in office of chief electoral officer in Shimla for Mandi parliamentary by-polls
- Jammu and Kashmir: JK CM says people will vote for National Conference in the 2014 assembly polls due to good governance
- Karnataka: Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum to hold Engineer Fair for ITI students from May 23-24 in Bangalore
- Kerala: Govt to soon bring a law to regulate fish seed farming to improve fishing sector in the state, says fisheries minister
- Kolkata: Saradha ponzi scam accused Debjani, who was admitted to SSKM hospital, discharged; sent to police custody till May 28
- Madhya Pradesh: Met department predicts clear sky over Bhopal during next 12 hours, maximum temperature to be around 44C
- Maharashtra: NIA files chargesheet before its special court against 4 people in connection with the 2006 Malegaon blasts
- Mumbai: NIA files chargesheet before its special court against 4 people in connection with the 2006 Malegaon blasts
- Northeast: Two killed, 9 hurt when their car skidded off a road near Lower Manshila and fell on the banks of Teesta in Sikkim
- Odisha: Five miscreants loot a liquor shop and decamp with Rs 40,000 in Bhanjanagar area of Ganjam district, say police
- Punjab: Unidentified youths rob Rs20 lakh from elderly woman, her grandson in their home near Baba Bakala village in Amritsar
- Rajasthan: Govt to soon provide drinking water facility in 8 villages of Rajsamand dist at a cost of Rs 50 lakh, say officials
- Tamil Nadu: Passenger train service from Salem to Karur via Namakkal to begin from May 25, says Salem railway divisional manager
- UP East: Two constables on VIP duty injured after brutally assaulting each other in Lucknow; arrested later
- UP West: Two constables on VIP duty injured after brutally assaulting each other in Lucknow; arrested later
- West Bengal: Saradha ponzi scam accused Debjani, who was admitted to SSKM hospital, discharged; sent to police custody till May 28
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 IANS Washington, Dec 19: A brain part tied to social interaction might prompt a person to commit horrific atrocities, especially if it becomes dysfunctional. This flaw also may help explain how propaganda depicting Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda as cockroaches and Hitler's classification of Jews in Nazi Germany as vermin contributed to torture and genocide. "When we encounter a person, we usually infer something about their minds. Sometimes, we fail to do this, opening up the possibility that we do not perceive the person as fully human," said Lasana Harris, neuroscientist and assistant prports the Journal of Psychology. But when participants in thisofessor of psychology at Duke University, who led the study. Social neuroscience has shown through MRI studies that people normally activate a network in the brain related to social cognition -- thoughts, feelings and empathy, for example -- when viewing pictures of others or thinking about their thoughts, re study were asked to consider images of people they considered drug addicts, homeless people and others they deemed low on the social ladder, parts of this network failed to engage, according to a statement of Duke and Princeton universities. The result is what the researchers call "dehumanised perception," or failing to consider someone else's mind. Such a lack of empathy toward others can also help explain why some members of the society are sometimes dehumanised, they said. "We need to think about other people's experience. It's what makes them fully human to us," said Susan Fiske, study co-author and professor of psychology at Princeton. For this latest study, 119 undergraduates from Princeton completed judgement and decision-making surveys as they viewed images of people. © 2013 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. For news, views and gossips, follow @IANSLIVE at Twitter. Find us on Facebook too! Update: 19-December-2011 Comments: [0] Add your comment |
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