It might not seem like news, but women exhibit considerably more empathy towards their partners than men do, according to a large-scale study at Griffith University and the University of Queensland in Australia.
When their partners succumbed to illness or experienced a traumatising life event, women were noticeably affected although the inverse was not true, according to Dr Cindy Mervin from Griffith Health Institute's Centre for Applied Health Economics and Professor Paul Frijters from the University of Queensland.
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