Lifespan: The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair

The psychologists had also recruited forty seminary students to present a talk at the annex. First, though, the students were asked to stop by another building on campus. Once there, some of the seminarians were told they could take their time getting to the annex, others were told they would be on time as long as they left immediately, and a final group was told that they needed to hurry to make it to the annex on time. Just 10 percent of those in the “high-hurry” group stopped to help the man. Those were seminary students, for goodness’ sake, and they ignored a brother in need. One literally stepped over the man in distress to get where he was supposed to be. In the “low-hurry” group, though, more than 60 percent stopped to help. In that experiment, the difference between whether a person made a compassionate choice had nothing to do with personal morality or religious scholarship but whether he felt rushed.

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