Infants Display Empathy Before Learning to Speak

Quick Summary

• Research shows that children as young as 9 months old exhibit empathy, demonstrating comfort behavior when adults pretend to be in pain.
• This finding pushes back the earliest age at which humans are known to display empathy.
• Babies from diverse cultural backgrounds also showed these empathetic behaviors, indicating that this ability may develop universally across populations.
• Empathy is considered a crucial skill for understanding emotions and interaction, according to Carlo Vreden at the leibniz Institute.

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