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May 26, 2008

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer." --Henry David Thoreau

Cash or Compliment?

It really does pay off to be nice to others. Researchers now point out that giving people a compliment activates the same reward center in the brain as paying them cash! "We found that these seemingly different kinds of rewards -- a good reputation versus money -- are biologically coded by the same neural structure, the striatum," said Dr. Norihiro Sadato in Japan.