Sex differences between males and females can be detected early in life. They are present
also later even to a much greater extent affecting our life in adulthood and a wide spectrum …

Chimpanzees and other great apes seem to be much less cooperative than humans overall,
yet they nevertheless reliably help others in many instrumental circumstances. Although in …

In the first few months of life, infants display intriguing individual differences in how they
react to novel stimuli in their environment. Infant “negative reactive” tendencies have been …

Empathy is associated with prosociality and beneficial outcomes across the lifespan. We
investigated the ability a school-based program with animal-based content to affect …

Introduction Young children show their capacity for compassion and their desire to enhance
the welfare of others in multiple ways. The present study sought to address gaps in …

This engaging, authoritative text synthesizes a vast body of research on how young children
develop the ability to understand, express, and manage their emotions, as well as the impact …

A few years ago, I was lecturing to first-year psychology students and mentioning
Wittgenstein's famous quote about psychology's “experimental methods and conceptual …

This study examined how a firstborn child's empathy interacts with maternal emotional
availability (EA) to predict later positive sibling relationships. The study included 108 families …

This study examined which parenting behaviors predict the development of infants' empathic
concern for others in distress. We distinguished between three forms of sensitive/responsive …

Understanding how children become kind and caring prosocial adults matters for the
survival and thriving of humanity. However, adversity can impact children's prosocial …