RE: WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...
January 2, 2015 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 12:47 pm by abaris.)
(January 2, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Empathy is not something we're born with. It is mostly formed when we are children by the bonds we have with our parents. By nurturing the emotional connection between parents and children the parts of our brain that are responsible for empathy become more developed, and that is how we really need to approach our moral issues.
It's up for debate if we're born with it. As I always keep repeating, new experiments with animals have shown them to possess empathy. So it may actually be a result of evolution, since having empathy actually has it's advantages, at least for a social species.
Quote: The dogs responded — 15 of the 18 in the study — by seeking out the person in distress, even if that person was the stranger. “On the surface, it certainly seemed as if the dogs were demonstrating empathy,” says Custance, who thought that if the dogs were seeking comfort for themselves they would go to their caretaker. She admits that the study raises other questions: What about other emotions, such as pleasure or anger? Would dogs respond differently to children?
Read more: http://www.cesarsway.com/dogbehavior/bas...z3NgQ1NGcg
Quote: “This suggests that the way emotional contagion works may not have changed much since humans split off from chimpanzees and bonobos 5 [million] to 7 million years ago,” said Campbell. “Rather, what appears to have changed is something about deep emotional connections that humans have with close family and friends. Humans could bond with others more intensely than bonobos, or humans could do this more frequently than bonobos.”
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.v...s-Humans-/