• Question: are kids more sympathetic than adults?

    Asked by Maia to Jen on 11 Mar 2015.
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      Jen Machin answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Good question 🙂 It doesn’t seem that they are. Both young and old people can be equally sympathetic, but it depends on different personality characteristics they have, and perhaps even how they were raised by their parents or families. One study found that children as young as 18 months old could be sympathetic towards someone else!

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