Humans
Babies start showing empathy even before they can speak
When adults pretended to be in pain, children as young as 9 months old comforted them, pushing back the earliest age when humans are known to display empathy
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Mind
Meditation seems to improve our empathy for strangers
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Technology
The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy
Features
Humans
People with more empathy may actually increase political divisions
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Humans
Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral
Features
Mind
You’re less empathetic when you’ve been drinking heavily
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Life
A chimp’s hug shows it’s time to accept that animals have feelings too
Culture
Humans
The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled
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Environment
Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends
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Mind
Googly-eyed robots rule: Why it’s vital to make us like them
Engineers are right to design robots that create an emotional response in humans as these machines become part of everyday life, says Jamais Cascio
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Mind
Not Like Us: How should we treat the robots we live alongside?
Opinion
Humans
Refugee crisis: Why one boy’s tragedy created a wave of empathy
Opinion
Life
Empathetic budgies yawn when they see their peers do the same
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Health
Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster
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