Thursday, July 5, 2012

(Lack of) Neuroscience of Schadenfreude

In 2009, researchers tried to determine where precisely Schadenfreude occurs in the brain and concluded that “pleasure at another’s misfortune is correspondent to the activation of the ventral striatum and the medial orbitofrontal cortex.” There are accompanying fMRI scans of a brain with a tiny lit-up portion circled in red.
This kind of neuroimaging research, which locates emotions in certain parts of the brain, has been under scrutiny for a while and, when questions were raised about this particular study, the authors defended their work


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