Psychology & Psychiatry
People from different cultures express sympathy differently, say researchers
Sympathy is influenced by cultural differences, new Stanford research shows.
Mar 26, 2015
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Neuroscience
Inside the brains of jurors: Neuroscientists reveal brain activity associated with mitigating criminal sentences
(Medical Xpress) -- When jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and making moral judgments, ...
Mar 28, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Extremist sympathies more likely in white British and UK-born people
White British people are almost twice as likely to hold extremist views as people of Pakistani heritage in England, according to a study by Queen Mary University of London.
Mar 14, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Relationship between sympathy, helping others could provide clues to development of altruism
Developmental psychologists long have debated whether individuals volunteer and help others because they are sympathetic or whether they are sympathetic because they are prosocial. Now, new research from the University of ...
Sep 29, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids who lack sympathy more likely to share with virtuous friends
Children who sometimes lack sympathy for others are more likely to share resources with those friends if they respect their morals suggests a paper published today (March 2, 2015) in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Mar 2, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants express non-verbal sympathy for others in distress
Infants as young as ten months old express sympathy for others in distress in non-verbal ways, according to research published June 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Yasuhiro Kanakogi and colleagues from Kyoto University ...
Jun 12, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People identify symptoms of depression more readily in women than men
The ability to correctly identify signs of depression depends on the gender of both the identifier and the person with depression, as well as individual psychological differences, according to research published November ...
Nov 14, 2012
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