Children can show empathy sooner than they’re sufficiently old to speak
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Children between 9 and 18 months outdated already display empathy, suggesting this talent begins at an previous age than in the past idea, even for small children from other cultural backgrounds.
“If I don’t understand your emotions, I can’t communicate with you and I can’t respond to your emotions, so it’s an essential skill – but we only know how it develops in a small part of the world,” says Carlo Vreden on the Leibniz…