Stress hormone reduces altruistic behavior in empathetic people
While not a substitution for scientific study, I always <i>knew</i> this.<p>When people are comfortable themselves, they tend to be more kind, understanding, and altruistic.<p>I also suspect that this is also a long-term phenomena as opposed to the short-term implications featured in this study.<p>When growing up, I have seen those people become altruistic, helpful, and have more bandwidth for other people’s mistakes first who started earning comfortably first.<p>My theory is this- being socio-economically comfortable with peace in mind makes you more tolerant, altruistic, and kind overall.<p>Thus study mentions only "empathetic" people. But I think this goes beyond them.