By age two or three, toddlers can put words to feelings and name a face as "happy" or "sad." A year or so later, kids realize that how another child perceives events will determine how the other child will react. By adolescence, another aspect, accurately read ing a person's feelings, gets stronger, paving the way for smoother social interactions.
Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness in alexythimics-people who have great difficulty understanding their own feelings and putting these into words. "You need to understand your own feelings to understand the feelings of others," she says.
The executive circuits that allow us to think about our own thoughts and feelings let us apply the same reasoning to other people's minds. "Theory of mind," the understanding that other people have their own feelings, desires, and motives, lets us reason about what someone else might be thinking and wanting. Such cognitive empathy shares circuitry with executive attention; it first blooms around the years between two and five and continues to develop right through the teen years.
By age two or three, toddlers can put words to feelings and name a face as "happy" or "sad." A year or so later, kids realize that how another child perceives events will determine how the other child will react. By adolescence, another aspect, accurately read ing a person's feelings, gets stronger, paving the way for smoother social interactions.
Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness in alexythimics-people who have great difficulty understanding their own feelings and putting these into words. "You need to understand your own feelings to understand the feelings of others," she says.
The executive circuits that allow us to think about our own thoughts and feelings let us apply the same reasoning to other people's minds. "Theory of mind," the understanding that other people have their own feelings, desires, and motives, lets us reason about what someone else might be thinking and wanting. Such cognitive empathy shares circuitry with executive attention; it first blooms around the years between two and five and continues to develop right through the teen years.
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