Men Like When Cheaters Get Punished, And Then Some

It's true, and according to a University College, London study, men enjoy watching cheaters get punished, but women? Well, not so much:

A new brain-scanning study suggests that when guys see a cheater get a mild electric shock, they don't feel his pain much at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it.

In contrast, women's brains showed they do empathize with the cheater's pain and don't get a kick out it.

I thought that was common knowledge. Personally, I enjoy watching bad people suffer, it fills my heart with gladness. I really dig when some jag-off gets some form of brutal retribution when caught in a dastardly act. Women though, God bless their hearts, they can actually feel another humans pain. There ya go, we're different.

The lead researcher, Tania Singer, in an e-mail message, said

The sex difference in results was a surprise and must be confirmed by larger studies. The researchers said women might have reacted like men if the cheater suffered psychological or financial pain instead.

So what? So what if women might react differently under different conditions, that's not what this study was about. You don't need any more money to research this, you need to stop fucking around and research something that everyone doesn't already know is true.

During the brain scans, each volunteer watched as the hands of a "fair" player and a cheater received a mild electrical shock. When it came to the fair-player, both men's and women's brains showed activation in pain-related areas, indicating that they empathized with that player's pain.

But for the cheater, while the women's brains still showed a response, men's brains showed virtually no specific reaction. Also, in another brain area associated with feelings of reward, men's brains showed a greater average response to the cheater's shock than to the fair player's shock, while women's brains did not.

The research would have been radically different if instead of sending a shock to a card cheater, send a shock to a wife/girlfriend cheater. Guaranteed every women would be like "Harder! Shock the bastard". The men on the other hand, we might empathize.

Cheaters never prosper, how shocking is that?