Hana speaks with a psychologist to explain- Dr. Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas - she’s the science director at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, to understand how the "helper’s high," a feeling we get when we are in service to others, works. What happens in the brain when we help someone?
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The science behind the 'Helper's High'
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