Japanese scientists have now proven Grandmother right (well,-ish). It was previously believed that schadenfreude belonged in the same brain area as jealousy. Instead it's our pleasure centre, the one that's stimulated by sex and good food, that lights up when we are enjoying the failures of others.
So, for those of us who are expecting neither sex nor good food today, here's something to light up our brains with.
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Oh man, I'd love to see what kind of trials they performed to test their theory.
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