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Kids Who Don’t Do This Might Grow up to Be Psychopaths, Researchers Find
Laughter is contagious. Actually, even moods are “catchable.” Since social contagion is an established human reaction, this new report is as surprising as it is creepy. It finds that children with the potential to develop psychopathy tend not to laugh along with others. They are naturally inoculated from social laughter. University College London (UCL) researchers in the UK came to this conclusion. Their findings were published in the journal Current Biology. Psychologists aren’t exactly sure what turns someone into a psychopath. A specific gene has been implicated, the so-called “warrior gene" The technical name is the MAOA-L gene.
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Nailed it.
I don't know what I'm more blown away by. That you read YouTube comments or that you found a solid one? Whichever, you're braver than me.
Youtube comments are as close to the digital equivalent of cancer as we can get, BUT... sometimes, there is a gem in the rough!
I'm definitely not one cause I enjoy laughing.
Wait, you might still be a psychopath. Do you take your coffee black? What about beer or chocolate or saltwater taffy, do you like any of those? You'd tell me, right? ... Right? For science?
I also read that if you like gin and tonic, you're also likely a psychopath. Oh noes!
I read if you drink black coffee your a psychopath..My mother drank black coffee and she was not a psychopath.
I don't like coffee, beer, or chocolate, but I do love saltwater taffy.
Mmm, taffy!