Experts tried to find out how much help to other people can protect a person from anxiety, stress and other negative emotions that people are exposed to.

As you know, there are several types of generosity: target and non-target.

Accordingly, when a person deliberately gives money to charitable organizations - this is a manifestation of untargeted generosity, because he does not see who helps. And if the help is rendered to the one who is directly beside him, in the field of vision is an obvious target generosity.

Specialists suggested that the subjects play the lottery. As part of the study, volunteers were guaranteed to become holders of $ 200. And then there were several options for the development of events.

Participants could give them to strangers, help a loved one they know, or keep to themselves. After the decision and its implementation, scientists analyzed the brain activity of the subjects.

It turned out that both kinds of generosity increase activity in that part of the brain that is responsible for altruism.

It is these areas that are activated in a person when he takes care of children. In addition, it is these departments that are responsible for training and love. Therefore, scientists noticed that those who donate money to charity felt much happier than those who left them to themselves.

And if a person helped someone he saw, he significantly reduced the risk of stress.

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