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empathy

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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The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy

Technology

The surprising promise and profound perils of AIs that fake empathy

Features

Empathy

Humans

People with more empathy may actually increase political divisions

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Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Humans

Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral

Features

Alcohol may impair your ability to judge how others are feeling

Mind

You're less empathetic when you've been drinking heavily

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chimp

Life

A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too

Culture

A woman laughing

Humans

The woman who laughs uncontrollably when others get tickled

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One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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Promobot robot stands in the middle of a road

Technology

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

Comment

Technology

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

Comment

Life

Empathetic budgies yawn when they see their peers do the same

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Life

Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster

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