Past experiences strongly affect empathy in mice

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ArticleBody:For social animals like humans, it’s critical to be able to recognize and react to the emotional state of others. One particularly important aspect of this ability is empathy—which, in this context, refers specifically to understanding when another person is in emotional distress. However, individuals can respond in very different ways to seeing someone in such distress. These responses fall into two broad categories.

In males, position in the social hierarchy was important; dominant male mice tended more to antisocial responses than other males. Female mice, meanwhile, were affected by estrus , with those in estrus appearing to be completely unaffected by negative self-experience. The study also investigated the neurological basis for these results.

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