Scientist have discovered a specific region in the brain that

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Scientist have discovered a specific region in the brain that is active when charitable decision are being made. This area. called the nucleus accumbens, releases dopamine, the chemical know to induce feeling of pleasure, when stimulated.

What is the inference in this discussion?

A. People should be more charitable.
B. Other parts of brain are activated when people are selfish.
C. Giving money to other can permanently change the chemistry of brain.
D. Self-sacrifice is actually a selfish act because it triggers dopamine release.
E. People who are truly charitable will have more active nucleus accumbens than people who are selfish

GMATNinjaTwo · Accepted Answer

Judging by the multiple grammatical errors in the passage, I don't think this question is from a reliable source.

Kurtosis · Answer

A, B and C are out of scope. E can't be ascertained as we do not have much information.

Only option D connects with the argument and hence should be the inference.

yoavyes · Answer

Hi expert!
I cannot understand why this particular answer
the answer goes way to far in the conclusion in concluding that:
1) self sacrifice = selfish
it is true that 
 2) Self sacrifice = feeling of pleasure 
but concluding that 
3) feeling of pleasure = selfish 
is not a GMAT conclusion and going out of scope
we need sentence (3) in order to answer D to be be correct

what do you say?

Yoav

Terabyte · Answer

A, B and C are obviously out of scope. In  E  - I think, we are simply not given any information about nucleus accumbens of selfish people

sallysea · Answer

Please specify the source of the question.

Nightmare007 · Answer

I feel all options are incorrect. 
Here, we are assuming that all selfish acts are done for the feeling of pleasure .

Need experts advice.
Thank you.

RanjanSury · Answer

I agree with you yoavyes. Choice D sounds ackward. I don't understand the logic of this choice. On the other hand E can be eliminated, because we have no information about selfish people in detail as such provided by the passage.

panthersarkar · Answer

I am not convinced with any of the explanation.
Please put some more logical explanation

Sneha333 · Answer

I believe A is the right option

If people are more charitable -->they will feel pleasure.Stands true for all cases.

We don't have any information about what is exactly "Selfish"-->it is subjective (depends on person to person).

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