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Two women hugging Credit: Yuri Levin (Unsplash) Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others- shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries. Our results provide some of the first evidence that the well-known phenomenon - that females are on average more empathic than males - is present in wide range of countries across the globe David Greenberg Researchers found that females, on average, score higher than males on the widely used -Reading the Mind in the Eyes- Test, which measures -theory of mind- (also known as -cognitive empathy-). This finding was observed across all ages and most countries. The reseach, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), is the largest study of theory of mind to date. A fundamental part of human social interaction and communication involves putting ourselves in other people's shoes, to imagine another person's thoughts and feelings. This is known as -theory of mind- or -cognitive empathy-. For decades, researchers have studied the development of theory of mind, from infancy to old age.
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