Healthy individuals can tell if a stranger is trustworthy or not in 20 seconds, according to new research out of UC Berkeley; suggesting empathy may have a genetic component. In fact, “the listeners who got the highest ratings for empathy, it turned out, possess a particular variation of the oxytocin receptor gene known as the GG genotype.”
You can test your instincts here.
Were you able to guess who had the GG gene?
