I feel your pain

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3073, 2016, págs. 32-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Empathy is undeniably a good thing. Understanding how others are feeling is a bonding mechanism that they are finding in an increasing number of animals, including dolphins and rats. In humans, primatologist Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has suggested that being affected by another emotional state was the earliest step in the evolution as a collaborative species. Here, Young details effects of empathy overload