We are built to be kind

This is a four-minute video published by some researchers at the University of California. Let us watch it together and do the worksheet below.

Worksheet

Raise your hand when you hear the following words in the video.

Do you know the meaning of all of them?sympathy       offspring       genes       empathy       

frontal lobes        requires        
cognitive achievement        wealth       charity       strength    

personally fulfilling         engage          on behalf of

According to the researchers at UCLA, are the following statements TRUE of FALSE?

1-      If you feel physical pain, a part of your brain hurts.

2-      According to Darwin, compassion is really old in the nervous system.

3-      Compassion, the feeling of caring for someone in need, activates the vagus nerve, the longest bundle of nerves in the human nervous system.

4-      Upper class individuals have a lot of compassion that's produced by lots of wealth.

5-      Lower class individuals give more.

6-      16 percent of what we do is really about maximizing an individual's personal gratification and desire

7-      The brain really cares about other people.

What the difference between empathy and sympathy? Match the words to the definitions.                                

Empathy	It is about finding a silver lining
Sympathy	It is about making an emotional connection with someone

According to this other three-minute video what is the best thing to say when someone shares something with you which is very difficult?
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Do you agree? Why? Why not?