{"id":253980,"date":"2011-12-10T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/biological-roots-of-empathically-motivated-helping-behaviour-strong-evidence-video\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T10:11:59","slug":"biological-roots-of-empathically-motivated-helping-behaviour-strong-evidence-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/biology\/biological-roots-of-empathically-motivated-helping-behaviour-strong-evidence-video.php","title":{"rendered":"Biological roots of empathically motivated helping behaviour, strong evidence &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Can rats display empathy by alleviating the suffering of an unrelated rat? To find out, psychologists Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Jean Decety, and Peggy Mason at the University of Chicago tested whether rats would rescue a trapped cagemate without any obvious reward. The group found that rats would release trapped cagemates from restrainers, but ignored empty restrainers or those containing only a toy rat. <\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3jkOwYKBJEI\" title=\"Biological roots of empathically motivated helping behaviour, strong evidence - Video\">Biological roots of empathically motivated helping behaviour, strong evidence - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Can rats display empathy by alleviating the suffering of an unrelated rat? To find out, psychologists Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Jean Decety, and Peggy Mason at the University of Chicago tested whether rats would rescue a trapped cagemate without any obvious reward. The group found that rats would release trapped cagemates from restrainers, but ignored empty restrainers or those containing only a toy rat.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/biology\/biological-roots-of-empathically-motivated-helping-behaviour-strong-evidence-video.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577690],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}