We’re learning just how early in life empathy starts to move us
What contagious crying, comforting hugs and other cute behaviour in infants tells us about the roots of emotional connection
by Zanna Clay & Carlo Vreden
Zanna Clay is professor of psychology at Durham University in the UK, where she leads the Comparative Cognition and Cross-Cultural Development Lab. She studies young children, as well as primates, to investigate the evolution and development of empathy, social cognition and language. She is currently leading a large-scale study looking at how empathy develops across cultures and species. She is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Written by Zanna Clay