{"id":2165,"date":"2009-04-26T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2009-05-03T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T09:48:48","slug":"mirror-neurons-and-science-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2009\/04\/mirror-neurons-and-science-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror neurons and science careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel online has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/mensch\/0,1518,620709-3,00.html\">excellent report<\/a> about mirror neurons, empathy, social background and research (taking up a theme in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2003\/35\/SM-Gruen\">ZEIT 2003<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;In unserer Kultur sind am erfolgreichsten die&#8221;, sagt Gruen, &#8220;die am meisten von ihren Gef&uuml;hlen, von der F\u00e4higkeit zum Mitgef&uuml;hl abgeschnitten sind.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->or with the corresponding Wiki article<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAccording to Freud, human beings are born with an innate tendency to destruction and violence; throughout his scholarly and clinical career, Prof. Gruen has challenged that assumption, arguing instead that at the root of evil lies self-hatred, a rage originating in a self-betrayal that begins in childhood\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mirror neurons are necessary for empathy are being formed. The pattern of over-adaptation is a common phenomenon that I observed in many science careers. Interestingly it is much less pronounced in top scoring scientists as over-adaptation would have kept them in the mainstream.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel online has an excellent report about mirror neurons, empathy, social background and research (taking up a theme in the ZEIT 2003) &#8220;In unserer Kultur sind am erfolgreichsten die&#8221;, sagt Gruen, &#8220;die am meisten von ihren Gef&uuml;hlen, von der F\u00e4higkeit zum Mitgef&uuml;hl abgeschnitten sind.&#8221; &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,9],"tags":[692,2167,2417,2415,2416],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-freud","tag-assumption","tag-clinical-career","tag-mirror-neurons","tag-social-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}