Men hungrier for revenge than women, brain scan study reveals

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 19/01/2006 | Davina Bristow

[phantomworker]

Ah! Statistics was very easy for me. Thus I majored in it. Even though I went to a supposed party school, UC-Santa Barbara, I could never find any parties. I was too much of a prude and no one wanted to invite me, I guess. LOL! Where did you find all the parties?

[neverdem]

Letter
Nature advance online publication; published online 18 January 2006 | doi:10.1038/nature04271

Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others
Tania Singer1,2, Ben Seymour1, John P. O'Doherty3, Klaas E. Stephan1, Raymond J. Dolan1 and Chris D. Frith1

It's a letter, not a whole article apparently. Someone who wrote the story linked in comment 45 apparently talked to the Nature letter authors, and they discussed the nucleus accumbens activity in males.

[elbucko]

This evidence of male schadenfreude, or pleasure at seeing revenge enacted, suggests men may have evolved to be less empathetic than women so they can more easily mete out punishments to help keep society cohesive,...

Then again, it may be nothing but the hunting instinct and the ancient pleasure of a successful kill and the anticipation of an ensuing full belly. I tend to be suspicious of psychological tests that investigate the primitive nature of man in a modern context.

I would like to see a similar form of this study done with women and shoes and men and a hamburger. Interesting? Maybe. Conclusive? Not likely.

[neverdem]

Seek and you shall find. Duh! I stumbled upon Tania Singer's link at ScienceNow Daily News, No Sympathy for the Devil. P values that were stated were between either < 0.05 or < 0.001. I'm willing to take bets that it will be replicated.

Sorry, but it's a pdf. format.

Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

The contrast images were then entered into one-sample t-tests, separately for female and male subjects, to instantiate random-effects group analyses^28,29.

voxel

[Syncro]

Among the sane, however, I think the word is "justice."

Justice is the right word. Good comment.