Genetic genes affect the empathy in each person's soul

Each person's ability to empathize is different, and the cause is partly due to hereditary inheritance from her parents.

According to Quartz, scientists have recently shown that when collaborating with genetics company 23andMe on DNA empathy and analysis of 46,861 people and found that genetics is related to differences in each person's ability to understand emotions.

Previously, studies have shown that women tend to be more sympathetic to people around them than men, but they do not find any genetic connections to explain the phenomenon, so they forced a conclusion to the conclusion due to the social condition and the hormonal environment in the uterus.

Accordingly, researchers from Cambridge University, Pasteur Institute, Paris Diderot University and 23andMe Company evaluated the empathy of participants based on Empathy Quotient (EQ) index . Based on that, the research team can make assessments of cognitive empathy (the ability to understand other people's thoughts and feelings) and emotional sympathy (responding to the emotions of others with a suitable personal feeling).

Genetic changes are related to changes in people's empathy.

In the study, scientists conducted a statistical analysis of all data on gene association to show that genetic variation is related to changes in people's sympathy. The research results have been published on Translational Psychiatry on March 12.

By examining 10 million genetic variations, Varun Warrier, a co-author of the project and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge Autism Research Center, commented that these small variations have contributed. about 10% of the factors lead to differences in empathy. At the same time, there are other studies that suggest that the genetic effect on sympathetic expression accounts for more than 30%, but the team redefines that it only accounts for 10% and comes from 10 million. The genetic variant they choose to perform research is.

Varun Warrier said: "All human traits can be inherited. Even empathy, which most people think without genetics is possible." The effect of genes does not mean losing the ability to control empathy in the soul, it is simply harder to control the level of empathy than those who enjoy good sympathetic genes. Warrier added: "In my opinion, people who are inherited empathy from their parents will be able to see things around better and be more sympathetic to others."

Researchers also found that if children are not inherited the ability to empathize much from their parents, there is a high risk of autism. Simon Baron-Cohen, a professor of psychiatry at Cambridge University and co-author of the study, said the project will help to better understand autism. Difficulties in feeling other people's thoughts and feelings "will make the child's heart become defective, leaving bad consequences as much as other common physical defects," he added.

Going back to Warrier, he argued that deciphering genetic phenomena of empathy could help determine whether special psychological treatments were really effective for patients. Cognitive behavioral therapy is an example to improve interpersonal relationships, and depends on empathy in the soul. In addition, genetics can explain why it works better for certain patients.

Although DNA has a great impact, if someone has little empathy, we cannot blame it entirely because their genes, habitat, culture, and education are also factors that have Significant influence on people's emotions later.