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Empathy Is Killed By Popular Painkiller Found In 600 Different Drugs
Acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol in the US and paracetamol elsewhere — reduces people’s empathy for the pain of others, new research finds. Acetaminophen is an ingredient in over 600 different medications, including being the main constituent of Tylenol. The ubiquitous painkiller does not just kill pain, it also kills our fellow-feeling.
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This may be telling a lot about the society we live in...
How less xenophobic would we generally be if Tylenol wasn't available over the counter?
Is there a link between how left or right we are politically and the amount of Acetaminophen we take on a monthly basis?
This raises so many questions!
Haha really good point.
I was somewhat concerned about this study until I read that the sample size was only 80 and they were all college students. Maybe this isn't such a telling thing about our society but rather about the age group sampled.