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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"dispositional empathy"”.
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Dispositional empathy and physiological reactivity: joint contributions to maternal sensitivity with toddler-aged children
The present study investigated maternal dispositional empathy and skin conductance level (SCL) reactivity in response to infant emotional cues as joint predictors of maternal sensitive behavior with their toddler-aged children. Sixty-four mother-toddler dyads (31 boys) were observed during a series …
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SOCIAL ANXIETY AND RELATIONAL AGGRESSION IN THE PEER RELATIONSHIPS OF COLLEGE WOMEN
… bias would mediate this relationship, and that dispositional empathy would moderate the direct relationship between social anxiety and relational aggression. Results demonstrated that FNE was not related to relational aggression and that hostile attribution did not mediate their predicted …
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Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain
… disorder (ASD) are often ascribed to deficits in empathy. I argue that social-communicative deficits in ASD stem from impairments in specific aspects of empathy, rather than a general empathy impairment. Empathy is defined as the sharing of another's emotion (affective empathy), understanding …
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The Effects of Personal Characteristics and Religious Orientations on Identification with All of Humanity and Humanitarian Behaviors
… the effects of personal characteristics (empathy and authoritarianism) and religious orientations (Christian humanitarianism and religious fundamentalism) on identification with all humanity and resulting humanitarian behavior. This research also tested two hypothetical models (personality …
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Empathy as a Predicting Factor of Stress Contagion Susceptibility
Empathy allows individuals to understand and resonate with others’ emotions, while stress contagion occurs when one person’s stress triggers a stress response in another. Although each construct has been studied independently, little research has examined their potential interaction. This study …
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The Impact Of Autobiographical And Vicarious Events On Narrative Identity
… or hearsay). The extent to which age, gender, dispositional empathy, and the degree of self-other overlap accounted for individual differences in both social closeness and proximity of the self to the event were also investigated. Participants (N = 64; Mage = 22.59, SD = 4.84, range = 18-44) …
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The role of personality and situational factors in forgiveness /
… influence forgiveness. The relations between empathy and forgiveness were studied, followed by the examination of the relation of these two variables to the Big Five personality traits, as well as honesty, absorption, the propensity to mystical experiences, and dissociation. Empathy was then …
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A bioecological approach to empathy, altruism, and intent to help: developmental, dispositional and contextual factors influence prosocial motivations and intentions
<p>Whether one helps due to altruistic empathy or egoistic motivators has been debated in the social psychological literature most recently with the Felt-Oneness (Cialdini et al., 1997) and the Empathy-Altruism (Batson 1991) hypotheses. For strangers, it appears that helping intentions are …
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Observational learning and pain-related fear
… affectivity, intolerance of uncertainty, and dispositional empathy of the observer to facilitate observational learning processes. Results revealed that watching others in pain induced pain-related fear, and caused participants to expect higher pain unpleasantness, pain intensity, and …
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Mirror touch: Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence on the effects of observing others’ tactile sensations on somatosensory processing in the observer and possible links to trait empathy
… processing and interindividual differences in dispositional empathy. The obtained electrophysiological data indicated that, first of all, the sight of others’ passive tactile sensations modulated somatosensory activity relatively consistently at both early and late processing stages within the …
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Another piece for the puzzle: Psychophysiological indicators of the absence of empathic responding in Factor I psychopathy
… As the research literature indicates, lack of empathy seems to be a prominent marker distinguishing psychopathic reactions from other antisocial behaviours. The overall aim of this research was to investigate whether psychophysiological indicators are powerful enough in detecting the absence of …
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Online Communities and Health
People are increasingly turning to online communities for entertainment, information, and social support, among other uses and gratifications. Online communities include traditional online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook but also specialized online health communities (OHCs) where people go …