India, April 13 -- Have you ever passed by a room in hurry, and watched a baby's sad face, and then automatically left everything at hand to tend to the kid in distress? While most may perceive this as a natural thing to do, a recent study says that women are subconsciously more tuned to babies in distress, making them have a stronger caregiving character. Also read | Here's why mother's emotional, mental health is as important as physical health

The study used eye-tracking technology and subliminal exposure to emotional facial expressions to understand the emotions that infant distress can trigger in women. The researchers observed that women often attended to babies in distress, even before they could consciously understand why they ar...