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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Empathic concern"”.
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Fictional Writing: The Role of Positive Affect and Empathic Concern
The purpose of this study was to examine fictional writing, the positive moods produced by fictional writing, and the ability to empathize and fantasize as predictors of helping behavior. Forty-four female student participants (ranging in age from 18- 26) at Texas State University-San Marcos were …
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Adolescents' responses to the distress of others: the influence of multiple attachment figures via empathic concern
… among early adolescents, via the mediation of empathic concern. Cross-sectional, quantitative survey data from 520 adolescents (aged 11-14) from 9 schools in Cape Town were used in the analyses. Zero-order correlations confirmed the expected positive relationships between attachment security to …
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The Relationship between Social Media and Empathy
… exists between conversing with others online and empathic expression (Ivcevic & Ambady, 2012. Empathic concern was hypothesized to show a positive relationship with one’s likelihood to chat, time on Facebook, and emotional connection to Facebook or Facebook usage. Empathic concern also was …
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Predictors of Bystander and Defender Behaviors in Bullying: Maternal Reactions to Child Emotion and Empathy in the United States and South Korea
… on their empathy (i.e., personal distress and empathic concern) using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and on their bystander/defender behaviors using the Types of the Conformity Groups in Bullying. For bystander behavior, mothers' unsupportive reactions were significantly correlated with …
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The Influnence of Empathy Priming and Social Value Orientations On the Motivation For Prosocial Behavior
… results show that empathy primes can activate empathic concern. Thus, this empathy prime was used in the main study to make empathy salient. I hypothesize that empathy primed participants will engage in greater prosocial behavior than neutral primed participants. I also hypothesize that …
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The perils of workplace recognition: antecedents and consequences of discomfort associated with being the target of threatening upward comparison
… outperformers’ interpersonal sensitivity, empathic concern, and competitive psychological climate, along with actual threat experienced by the outperformed, were all expected to increase the likelihood that outperformers would experience STTUC, and STTUC was, in turn, expected to result in …
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Gender differences in bystanders’ intention to help towards female and male victims of domestic violence: a web-based online survey
… males? Whether females and males will feel more empathic concern towards same sex victims? Whether higher empathy scores will lead to stronger willingness to help domestic violence victim? Whether personality traits such as: extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism are going to affect the …
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Willingness to help: how the portrayal and perception of a wrongfully convicted individual affects people’s willingness to help exonerees
… were conducted to examine how emotions and empathic concern might impact personal willingness to help exonerees. In both studies, participants watched a video of an exoneree discussing an angry or sad aspect of his wrongful conviction and then asked about helping exonerees (assessed with …
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Justice Across Group Boundaries: Extending Empathy-Motivated Helping to Out-Groups
… are reviewed. An experimental study manipulated empathic concern for an out-group by varying the perspective through which participants interpret an experience that is had by a fictional immigrant group to America. In addition, the study manipulated the stereotypes that characterized the …
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White fear, dehumanization and low empathy: A lethal combination for shooting biases
… simulation task and (2) whether empathy (i.e., empathic concern and perspective taking) moderated those relations. Two hundred seven White undergraduate students completed two tasks assessing shooting bias and dehumanization and two questionnaires assessing White fear of racial minorities and …
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Does Screen Time Help or Hinder Toddlers' Development of Prosocial Behaviour?
… the impacts of screen time on early empathic and sharing behaviour. Three main questions were addressed: (1) What is the landscape of technology use – how much technology are young children exposed to, what variety, and how does this change over time? (2) What patterns are seen across …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
… consumption behaviors. The results showed that empathic concern had a significantly positive effect on socially responsible consumption, whereas personal distress did not. As the antecedent of self-conscious emotions, private and public self-consciousness both were positively association with …
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Social Support, Parent-Child Communication And Reactions To Pediatric Cancer Medical Procedures
… the procedure, parent personal distress and empathic concern before the procedure, parent positive and negative emotions after the procedure, parent and child procedure-related distress and child cooperation during the procedure. Multiple coders rated child distress and cooperation.</p> …
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Psychological profiles of clerical and non-clerical men who have sexually abused children
… lay offenders, and were more agreeable, more empathically concerned, and reported greater social sexual desirability than normal controls. But they also had lower self-esteem than the normal control group. The lay offenders had greater neuroticism, less extraversion, less openness, more …
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Psychopathic traits and social-cognitive processes in aggressive youth
… trait significantly predicted empathic concern, perspective taking, cognitive dysregulation, and outcome values in obtaining a tangible reward and getting in trouble or being punished.
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Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain
… Empathy can also lead to muscle mimicry and empathic concern for another's wellbeing. I argue that empathy should be measured on multiple levels: cognitive, subjective and physiological. Particularly, measurement of autonomic regulation can contribute to characterising the empathy profile in …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
… process of collective noticing another's pain, empathic concern or feeling another's pain and taking action to ease their suffering, and is ascribed to the orchestration of spontaneous individual acts of compassion in accordance with specific organizational architecture. Situations with limited …
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The relationship between a child's affect regulation and their social cognition (theory of mind and empathy)
… shows that affect regulation is essential for empathic concern and behaviour. Additionally, studies in clinical populations have highlighted the relationship between affect regulation and ToM. Based on the literature, it was inferred that successful regulation of one's affect would result in …
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The Right Thing to Do: Moral Conviction Associated with Reducing Economic Inequality Predicts Support for Redistributive Policies
… Furthermore, this relationship was mediated by empathic concern (with mixed results) and structural causal attributions. Finally, Study 4 showed how moral conviction predicted a positive evaluation of poverty reduction program – even in the face of negative evidence (i.e., description of a …
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
… implicit positive affect, personal distress, and empathic concern to be significant process variables. These process variables were entered into the model as covariates with victim distance being the independent variable and donations being the dependent variable. The results suggested that …
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