Outgrowing emotional egocentricity
Jun. 3rd, 2014 01:08 amMax Planck researchers discover a region of the brain that enables children to overcome emotional self-centeredness as they mature
Children are more egocentric than adults. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have demonstrated for the first time that children are also worse at putting themselves in other people’s emotional shoes. According to the researchers, the supramarginal gyrus region of the brain must be sufficiently developed in children for them to be able to overcome their egocentric take on the world.
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