{"id":611,"date":"2009-12-22T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T03:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-12-22T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T03:26:53","slug":"speaking-of-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=610\">chimps, yawning, and empathy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m thinking about human kids.<\/p>\n<p>Toddlers don&#8217;t have empathy. And certainly infants don&#8217;t. Sometimes toddlers play empathic roles, pretending to really care, but when it doesn&#8217;t amuse them any more, they stop. There have been all kinds of studies about when kids really start to develop a sense of the fact that other people have feelings and thoughts and knowledge of their own.<\/p>\n<p>And toddlers don&#8217;t experience contagious yawning.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t repeat what I already said in my last post about the possible link between contagious yawning and empathy.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder whether empathy in human children comes around the same time as contagious yawning. I bet it does, but I can&#8217;t find where anyone&#8217;s published anything about that specific question.<\/p>\n<p>My thinking is that when you first notice your child experiencing contagious yawning, you should consider it a big milestone.<\/p>\n<p>[Incidentally, I also bet that chimps have the same developmental milestones.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just posted about chimps, yawning, and empathy. Now I&#8217;m thinking about human kids. Toddlers don&#8217;t have empathy. And certainly infants don&#8217;t. Sometimes toddlers play empathic roles, pretending to really care, but when it doesn&#8217;t amuse them any more, they stop. There have been all kinds of studies about when kids really start to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}