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Giving up a kidney to a stranger requires a certain sense of selflessness, what’s come to be known in social science as extraordinary altruism. University of Pennsylvania psychologist Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz wanted to understand the connection between this trait and empathy, specifically empathy for distress emotions. Using fMRI scans, Brethel-Haurwitz and colleagues from Georgetown University discovered

Girl, 2, has such severe psoriasis her skin is ‘lobster red’ and she is shunned by strangers over fears she is contagious Maisie Buchanan, two, has a severe skin condition called chronic infant psoriasis The condition causes her entire body to go bright red and dry and scaly Her parents, from Falkirk, say strangers in