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Futurismic asks, Is Twitter a threat to morality and ethics?

In the study (being published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition), the researchers […] found, using brain imaging, that while humans can respond in fractions of seconds to signs of physical pain in others, awakening admiration and compassion take much longer: six to eight seconds to fully respond to the stories of virtue or social pain, in the case of the study.