Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parents’ empathic perspective taking and altruistic behavior predicts infants’ arousal to others’ emotions
Originally published 2015-04-02 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00360 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What do I notice when my infant hears another baby becoming upset?
This article addresses infant attention to another infant’s emotions alongside parents’ altruistic behavior.
Who was studied?
49 infants taking part in a pupil-response study and their parents
Age / stage: 12 and 15 months
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate infant attention to another infant’s emotions alongside parents’ altruistic behavior?
- Which actions were observed directly, and how closely does the task resemble family life?
- Does a change in an infant’s pupil size distinguish empathy from general emotional arousal?
Keep the limits in view
Pupil change is a measure of arousal. It does not independently show that an infant understood the other infant’s emotional state.
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Michaela B. Upshaw; Cheryl R. Kaiser; Jessica A. Sommerville (2015). Parents’ empathic perspective taking and altruistic behavior predicts infants’ arousal to others’ emotions Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00360
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