UO researchers seek to find out: Who are the good-hearted?

UO researchers seek to find out: Who are the good-hearted?: University of Oregon researchers have found a high-tech way to learn if you are among the very good at heart. The researchers put 80 members of the university’s classified staff — ages 18 to 67 — through a trifecta of tests that examined their personality traits, economic behaviors and neurological patterns. They were excited to find some participants whose brains lit up at the sight of altruism; whose personality test results tended toward the empathetic; and who were prone to giving money to others, often and well.