Middle-Aged Women Have Most Empathy

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthLooking for someone to really listen and care? Talk to a woman in her 50s. A new University of Michigan study of more than 75,000 adults, ages 18 to 90, found that late-middle-aged women were the most empathetic — more so than either men the same age or anyone (of either gender) older or younger. Overall, middle-aged adults were more empathetic — meaning more likely to react emotionally to the experiences of others and to understand things from another person’s …