Cambridge University Press, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 01(25)
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x02460013
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Two major problems exist in studying development: Similar behaviors do not need to reflect the same underlying process' different behaviors can reflect the same process; earlier behaviors do not necessarily lead to later behaviors. Empathy, rather than social contagion, is supported by different processes; contagion supported by prewired species behavior, empathy by cognitions, in particular, the cognitions about the self - a meta-representation.