It’s an online social experiment she calls
The Empathy Effect.
When the project wraps in June 2016, she’ll award a cash donation of $5,000 to a nonprofit representing the cause that generates the most engagement (measured in Likes and shares). Smiley hopes the gift “transmits a little more empathy into the world” beyond Facebook.
“Life can be unkind and unfair,” said Smiley. “But it is so much more beautiful when glimmers of empathy punctuate the darkness.”
Humans, it turns out, have mirror neurons that are far smarter, more flexible and more highly evolved than any of those found in monkeys, a fact that scientists say reflects the evolution of humans’ sophisticated social abilities. The human brain …
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