Evidence suggests that there are differences in the capacity for empathy between males and
females. However, how deep do these differences go? Stereotypically, females are …

Emotion expression is an important feature of healthy child development that has been
found to show gender differences. However, there has been no empirical review of the …

The topic of typical sex and gender difference in empathy is examined in both a
developmental and neuroscientific perspective. Empathy is construed as a multi‐layered …

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The study examined the responses of typically developing infants to the distress of another,
prior to and following the transition to the second year. Infants' responses to maternal …

Concern for others has been thought to emerge in the 2nd year of life (Hoffman,,,). Three
related ideas underlying this view assume that younger infants cannot distinguish between …

In the current paper we present new empirical data and meta-analytic evidence for the role
of dopamine-related genes as a susceptibility factor interacting with the rearing environment …

What role does socialization play in the origins of prosocial behavior? We examined one
potential socialization mechanism–parents' discourse about others' emotions with very …

The authors investigated the development of a disposition toward empathy and its genetic
and environmental origins. Young twins'(N= 409 pairs) cognitive (hypothesis testing) and …

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