{"id":102583,"date":"2020-02-20T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-scanned-brains-of-bullies-and-found-something-grim"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:59","slug":"scientists-scanned-brains-of-bullies-and-found-something-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-scanned-brains-of-bullies-and-found-something-grim","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Scanned Brains of Bullies and Found Something Grim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-scanned-brains-of-bullies-and-found-something-grim.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A key exception: The brains of people who exhibited anti-social behavior as teenagers but not as adults showed no such abnormalities. That\u2019s good news for reformed bullies, but bad news for the lifers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people who exhibit antisocial behaviour primarily do so only in adolescence, likely as a result of navigating socially difficult years, and these individuals do not display structural brain differences,\u201d Carlisi said. \u201cIt is also these individuals who are generally capable of reform and go on to become valuable members of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What remains hazy is the question of causation \u2014 are the brains of bullies small <em>because<\/em> they\u2019re bullies, or do they become bullies <em>because of their small brains<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key exception: The brains of people who exhibited anti-social behavior as teenagers but not as adults showed no such abnormalities. That\u2019s good news for reformed bullies, but bad news for the lifers. \u201cMost people who exhibit antisocial behaviour primarily do so only in adolescence, likely as a result of navigating socially difficult years, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}