A study published in the journal Nature in 2006 recently generated debate on networks about how men and women react to situations of justice and injustice.
The research revealed that, while men tend to respond with a logic of punishment to dishonest behavior, women maintain levels of empathy even in the face of those who act unfairly.
On social networks, this marked difference was used to try to explain the reasons for, for example, the "empathetic behavior" that some women tend to have when they arrest a criminal, whom they try to victimize.
The scientific study The
work was developed 20 years ago by Tania Singer and Klaas Emmo Stephan, from University College London.For the experiment, 16 men and 16 women participated in a game alongside actors, one of whom behaved fairly while the other was cheating
.The participants then observed, while undergoing brain scans, how one of the players received a painful electric shock, similar to a bee sting. The brain reaction made it possible to identify how they perceived each of those involved
.When the actor who had acted correctly received the shock, both men and women activated brain regions associated with empathy.
