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SCOUT· 20%20m·2020-03-10·ScienceWhat Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
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Why do we feel empathy for some people, but not others? Where does this feeling of empathy come from? These questions have been the focus of one University of Chicago neurobiologist’s career. And to find answers, Prof. Peggy Mason started studying an unlikely creature: rats. It turns out that rodents have a lot to…
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