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"... we found that individual levels of empathy – not gender – were the strongest predictor of how intensely the brain’s “parental vigilance” network activated. Caring is a skill that is honed through practice, and it physically reshapes the brain of any dedicated caregiver, male or female."
#NicolasMathevon, 2025
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"To ensure this wasn’t just a limitation of technology, we repeated the experiment with human listeners. We had parents and nonparents first “train” on the cries of a specific baby, just as a parent would in real life, and then asked them to identify the cause of new cries from that same baby. They fared no better, scoring just 35 percent."
#NicolasMathevon, 2025
Ok, this seems a bit more scientific. But it begs the question, why involve a Trained #MOLE at all?
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"... we found that individual levels of empathy – not gender – were the strongest predictor of how intensely the brain’s “parental vigilance” network activated. Caring is a skill that is honed through practice, and it physically reshapes the brain of any dedicated caregiver, male or female."
#NicolasMathevon, 2025
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"How mothers are 'gaslit' into suppressing their 'completely normal' anger"
#RuthBarber, #ABC News, 2025
Not just mothers either. Solo dads experienced similar kinds of normal frustration and anger about the situation we've been put in, and it's even more pathologised.
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