Marco Iacoboni 'Are we wired for empathy?' at Happiness & Its Causes 2011

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Professor Marco Iacoboni, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA