How do young children respond to the distress of others? Applying infrared thermography and behavioural analyses to examine the development of emotion contagion and empathy.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC12959689 · PMID 41779817

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just failed to reach significancep = 0.083so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The model of temperature change 80 s after stimulus onset just failed to reach significance over the null model ( χ 2 = 9.73, d.f. = 5, p = 0.083); therefore, results should be treated with caution.

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