Also at age three, children begin to apply gender labels and stereotypes, identifying gentle, empathic characteristics with females and strong and aggressive characteristics with males.
People with Williams syndrome are socially fearless, impulsive, erratic, and highly empathic, but they're excessively anxious about non-social situations.
Medics who attended Professor Lesley Fallowfield's intensive three-day training courses became much more empathic toward their patients.
Also at age three, children begin to apply gender labels and stereotypes, identifying gentle, empathic characteristics with females and strong, aggressive characteristics with males.
Those who are empathic often feel the emotions of others as their own, and the information they receive comes in the form of feelings and emotions.