"What are the evolutionary origins for empathy, for sympathy, for our tendency to feel sorrow when we feel distress?
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She cited the findings of various large surveys: "Only one-third to one-half of women who report decreased desire or response believe they have a problem or feel distress for which they would like help".
Reporting this month in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that genetic differences in people's responsiveness to the effects of oxytocin were linked to their ability to read faces, infer the emotions of others, feel distress at others' hardship and even to identify with characters in a novel or "Doonesbury".
All four of these conditions were preceded by two minutes of mundane conversation between Ms Mayer, who filled the role of the stranger, and the dog's owner.Dr Custance and Ms Mayer suspected that if exposure to crying led dogs to feel distress, then regardless of who was crying, the dog would go to their master to seek comfort.
They have to feel distress for what they've done so that they can understand the role of their sexual fantasies - and know that sexual fantasies of children are not OK".
Primatologist Frans de Waal asks why natural selection designed our brains so that we are so much in tune with our fellow beings as to feel distress and pleasure along with them.
Women may feel distress, resentment or dependency towards their family members [ 27, 51].
Avoidance of uncertainty: people often feel distress under conditions of uncertainty, with anxiety decreasing after diagnosis.
These 'new' needs are frequently juxtaposed alongside an existing set of 'old' problems, and only serve to transform and intensify them and create additional interfaces and novel dimensions on which all children can feel distress.
