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Empathy Is Killed By Popular Painkiller Found In 600 Different Drugs
Every week almost one-quarter of Americans use this drug.
Acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol in the US and paracetamol elsewhere — reduces people’s empathy for the pain of others, new research finds.
Empathy Is Killed By Popular Painkiller Found In 600 Different Drugs - PsyBlog
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In spite of most experts noting that Tylenol can be taken daily, virtually free from danger, studies show that ingesting just a little bit more than the daily recommended dose of 4 grams of Tylenol over the course of a few days can result in severe illness and even death.
Aside from liver damage, overdose, severe illness, and death, a new study shows acetaminophen to effectively kill human empathy.
The study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Mischkowski et al., 2016) found that Tylenol, or one of the other 600 different acetaminophen medications, reduces people’s empathy for the pain and suffering of others.
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Dr. Dominik Mischkowski, the study’s first author, explains:
“These findings suggest other people’s pain doesn’t seem as big of a deal to you when you’ve taken acetaminophen.
Acetaminophen can reduce empathy as well as serve as a painkiller.”
The ability to understand and share the feelings with other humans is a crucial part of peace. The golden rule itself is a function derived from empathy. Remove human empathy and you remove a driving force behind humans treating each other with respect and dignity.
According to the study:
As hypothesized, acetaminophen reduced empathy in response to others’ pain. Acetaminophen
Read more at Study: One Quarter of All Americans Take a Drug Every Week that Kills their Empathy
Study: One Quarter of All Americans Take a Drug Every Week that Kills their Empathy
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Too bad more people can't understand what so many of these Prescribed drugs are doing, and funny how the public schools are wanting to put just about every kid who doesn't sit still long enough on some kind of drug.
Every week almost one-quarter of Americans use this drug.
Acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol in the US and paracetamol elsewhere — reduces people’s empathy for the pain of others, new research finds.
Empathy Is Killed By Popular Painkiller Found In 600 Different Drugs - PsyBlog
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In spite of most experts noting that Tylenol can be taken daily, virtually free from danger, studies show that ingesting just a little bit more than the daily recommended dose of 4 grams of Tylenol over the course of a few days can result in severe illness and even death.
Aside from liver damage, overdose, severe illness, and death, a new study shows acetaminophen to effectively kill human empathy.
The study, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Mischkowski et al., 2016) found that Tylenol, or one of the other 600 different acetaminophen medications, reduces people’s empathy for the pain and suffering of others.
image: http://pixel.watch/qut7
Dr. Dominik Mischkowski, the study’s first author, explains:
“These findings suggest other people’s pain doesn’t seem as big of a deal to you when you’ve taken acetaminophen.
Acetaminophen can reduce empathy as well as serve as a painkiller.”
The ability to understand and share the feelings with other humans is a crucial part of peace. The golden rule itself is a function derived from empathy. Remove human empathy and you remove a driving force behind humans treating each other with respect and dignity.
According to the study:
As hypothesized, acetaminophen reduced empathy in response to others’ pain. Acetaminophen
Read more at Study: One Quarter of All Americans Take a Drug Every Week that Kills their Empathy
Study: One Quarter of All Americans Take a Drug Every Week that Kills their Empathy
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Too bad more people can't understand what so many of these Prescribed drugs are doing, and funny how the public schools are wanting to put just about every kid who doesn't sit still long enough on some kind of drug.
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