Children who lack empathy can become bad boys!
Adolescents with high levels of emotional insensitivity show less guilt about committing an immoral act and less ability to view ...
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First hugs define baby’s future level of empathy
Early maternal contact has effects on social brain functioning years later, including the ability to empathize. THE ESSENTIAL The brains ...
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Men with high testosterone levels are more selfish
Testosterone decreases the activity of the temporoparietal junction, a region of the brain involved in empathy. THE ESSENTIAL In one ...
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Can you change the character of your partner?
Everyone can change during a relationship, even the most inflexible characters.If you cannot change your personality, you can completely start ...
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Pain: you suffer less in the presence of your romantic partner
Researchers have tested the pain reactions of several heterosexual couples. They find that in the presence of their partner, individuals ...
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Sexual harassment: the empathy of men for the aggressors would explain the “blaming of the victims”
After hearing an account of sexual harassment, men would tend to put themselves in the shoes of the aggressor, which ...
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Pain: Caregivers can lessen their patients’ pain through empathy
Emphatic words can decrease pain by 12%, more than some medications. It is possible to ease a patient's pain just ...
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Psychology: lying reduces the capacity for empathy
Lying or acting dishonestly makes it harder to understand other people's feelings and can have greater long-term consequences. Better to ...
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What goes on in the brain of a murderer?
According to an American study carried out on detainees guilty of murder or delinquency, the brain of murderers would have ...
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Fibromyalgia: see a doctor regularly to fight depression and suicide
Fibromyalgia is still a mysterious, complex and possibly heterogeneous disease. Patients suffer from chronic pain all over the body. Disabling ...
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Empathy is as old as Neanderthals
The Neanderthals were not the brutes one might imagine. Peer support and wounded care were widespread and carried out with ...
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Oxytocin: low levels reduce empathy
Certain pathologies could reduce the empathy of patients who suffer from them, by reducing their levels of oxytocin, according to ...
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Paracetamol would reduce empathy
The best-selling painkiller in France would act as an emotional switch. After consuming it, the pain and joy of others ...
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Psycho: empathy does not necessarily help to better understand others
People with great empathy don't necessarily understand others better, according to a recent German study. Empathy is a well-known quality, ...
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Brain: altruism is an innate quality in humans
American neuroscientists suggest that altruism and generosity are innate qualities. They would even have discovered a way to develop them. ...
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Yawning is more contagious in women
Yawning is contagious. A new study shows that this is mostly the case for women because they are more empathetic.It's ...
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Empathy to relieve pain
© Getty ImagesA study published in 2017 showed that share your life with an empathetic partner made it possible to ...
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Insomnia: caregivers affected are less empathetic
Insomnia doesn't mean empathy. Caregivers who have trouble falling asleep pay less attention to the well-being of their patients.Hours spent ...
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Psycho: does the contraceptive pill have an impact on empathy?
© getty imagesAccording to the 2016 Health Barometer, around 36% of French women aged 15 to 75 use the pill ...
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To quit smoking or alcohol, empathy is the keystone of motivational interviewing
Why Docteur offers you a series of short programs to discover a key moment in helping to change behavior, such ...
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Oxytocin, the hormone that promotes empathy
© iStockPhotosIt is called the “love hormone”, and if some people lack it, it is not necessarily that they are ...
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Meditation: observable effects on memory and empathy
February 24, 2010 - People who follow a stress reduction program based on mindfulness meditation would see their gray matter ...
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Tolcapone: a molecule to improve empathy
© ThinkstockHis little name is Tolcapone. This molecule, developed by researchers at the University of California (United States), directly changes ...
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Psychopaths do not feel a sense of empathy
© iStockResearchers wanted to understand why les had this character trait and developed this lack of empathy. They went to ...
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