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[Early forms of compassion].

T Mokrusch1, M Schüler, D Harms

  • 1Universitäts-Kinderklinik Erlangen.

Zeitschrift Fur Kinder- Und Jugendpsychiatrie
|June 1, 1989
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Newborns exhibit early forms of compassion, crying in response to other infants from birth. This innate trait, termed responsive crying, evolves with age but persists, suggesting compassion is inborn.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Infant behavior
  • Social-emotional development

Context:

  • Investigating the origins of compassion in early human development.
  • Examining infant responses to auditory distress cues.
  • Understanding the emergence of empathy in the first year of life.

Purpose:

  • To determine if early forms of compassion are present in infants within their first year.
  • To analyze vocal and motor reactions of newborns and infants to recorded crying sounds.
  • To identify factors influencing responsive crying in early infancy.

Summary:

  • Infants demonstrate responsive crying from birth when hearing other children cry.
  • This behavior decreases with age but transforms into more nuanced emotional expressions.

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  • Factors like hunger, sibling presence, and sex influence the intensity of responsive crying.
  • Responsive crying is specific to social distress cues, not indifferent sounds, supporting its compassionate nature.

    • Impact:

    • Provides evidence for inborn, primitive forms of compassion present at birth.
    • Highlights the early development of social-emotional understanding in infants.
    • Suggests a foundational biological basis for empathy and compassion.