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if they're crying they must be in some sort of pain so they cry some more."
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But clever psychologists have ruled this out. What they did was a study
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where they exposed babies to tape-recorded sounds of other babies crying
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and tape recorded sounds of themselves crying.
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Babies cry more to this pain of other babies than they do to their own pain,
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suggesting that their response is to some extent a response
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to the "Otherness" of the characters. We know pain is--
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of others is aversive for chimpanzees and we know this in certain ways.
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But we know this, in particular,
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from a series of studies that would be unethical if they were to be done today.
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In these studies, they put a chimpanzee in a room and there's a lever.
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And when the chimpanzee slaps the lever, it gets some food.