Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A new model of empathy: The rat - The Washington Post

A new model of empathy: The rat - The Washington Post

"... Recently, scientists demonstrated “emotional contagion” in mice, a situation in which one animal’s stress worsens another’s.
But empathy that leads to helping activity — what psychologists term “pro-social behavior” — hasn’t been formally shown in non-primates until now."

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