Systemising and empathising in early years science – a video-based study with pre-school children.

By Nina Skorsetz, Manuela Welzel-Breuer

Issue 15 | Page 6 | Published Aug 2018

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An approach used to explain differences in the motivation for science could be through the Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) Theory, which states that every person's brain has two dimensions: the systemising and the empathising.

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