Warmer Parenting Makes Antisocial Toddlers More Empathetic [PSMag.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/5/144:00 AM

When parents act warmly and responsively toward young children who exhibit antisocial behavior, the children begin acting more warmly too.

That’s according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, in which researchers examined whether there are differences in response to parental harshness and warmth among three-year-olds who exhibit “callously unemotional” behavior.

These findings “highlight the toddler years as a key intervention period to reduce the likelihood that children with callously unemotional behavior will develop more entrenched and severe conduct problems.”

[For more of this story, written by Avital Andrews, go to http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/warmer-parenting-makes-toddlers-empathetic-87287/]

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