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SUBMITTER: Noten MMPG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7217152 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Noten Malou M P G MMPG van der Heijden Kristiaan B KB Huijbregts Stephan C J SCJ van Goozen Stephanie H M SHM Swaab Hanna H
Developmental psychobiology 20190906 4
Although emotional responses are theorized to be important in the development of empathy, findings regarding the prediction of early empathic behavior by infant behavioral and physiological responses are mixed. This study examined whether behavioral and physiological responses to mild emotional challenge (still face paradigm and car seat task) in 118 infants at age 6 months predicted empathic distress and empathic concern in response to an empathy-evoking task (i.e, experimenter's distress simul ...[more]