Newsweek claims that young babies can feel empathy for others--hahahaha! In a cover story on "Your Baby's Brain," the scientific "proof" is that if you put a baby--say, me--next to a crying baby, I'll start to cry too. But that's not because you feel sorry for the other bawler! It's because crying is contagious--you hear someone wailing loud enough and it makes you upset. I've heard adults say they feel like crying when I've been at it for awhile (especially if they're stuck next to me on a plane). But the article is right about one thing: babies are a whole lot smarter than people give us credit for! How do you think we get the grownups to do whatever we want?
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