On Tylenol, you feel other’s pain less

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 08:01 in Psychology & Sociology

When you take acetaminophen to reduce your pain, you may also be decreasing your empathy for both the physical and social aches that other people experience, a new study suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University found, for example, that when participants who took acetaminophen learned about the misfortunes of others, they thought these individuals […]

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