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Realizing the Potential of Empathic Concern
2023Abstract Realizing the potential of empathic concern is well underway. This chapter reviews some of the better-known programs in which empathy has been used to improve interpersonal and/or intergroup relations. Empathy has been used to increase prosocial behavior, as well as to reduce animosity, prejudice, and discrimination in ...
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Religious Commitment and Empathic Concern
Journal of Empirical Theology, 2018Abstract There is very extensive literature on whether and how religiosity and empathy are related. Such research shows very different results, with some finding a positive influence while others seeing no influence. This paper presents research conducted on German youth (N=2157) regarding the question of how young people score on empathic concern and ...
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Necessary Conditions for Feeling Empathic Concern
2023Abstract Necessary conditions for feeling empathic concern are proposed to be (a) perceiving the other as in need (either current need or vulnerability) and (b) intrinsically (rather than extrinsically) valuing the other’s welfare. Empathic concern is proposed to be a multiplicative function of these two conditions.
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Helping Behavior, Dispositional Empathic Concern, and the Principle of Care
Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010This research investigates the relative strength of two correlates of helping behavior: dispositional empathic concern and a moral principle to care about others. The empathy–helping and care–helping relationships are investigated using data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative random sample of the U.S. adult population.
Wilhelm, M.O., Bekkers, R.H.F.P.
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The Development of Empathic Concern in Siblings: A Reciprocal Influence Model
Child Development, 2019Abstract This study utilized actor–partner interdependence modeling to examine the bidirectional effects of younger (Mage = 18 months) and older siblings (Mage = 48 months) on later empathy development in a large (n = 452 families), diverse (42% immigrant) Canadian sample.
Marc, Jambon +4 more
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Empathic Concern and the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1983A study was conducted to explore the effects of empathic predispositions on viewing and contributing to the annual muscular dystrophy telethon. A multidimensional measure of empathy (the Interpersonal Reactivity Index) was used to assess empathic predisposition, and respondents answered questions concerning their past viewing of the telethon and ...
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009
This study examined how having had a similar experience to a target person’s experience affected three facets of empathy: empathic concern, empathic accuracy, and perceived empathy. Women who had never been mothers, who were pregnant with their first child, or who had just given birth to their first child (20 in each group) served as perceivers ...
Sara D, Hodges +4 more
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This study examined how having had a similar experience to a target person’s experience affected three facets of empathy: empathic concern, empathic accuracy, and perceived empathy. Women who had never been mothers, who were pregnant with their first child, or who had just given birth to their first child (20 in each group) served as perceivers ...
Sara D, Hodges +4 more
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Empathic concern and helping behavior: Egoism or altruism?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1988Abstract The present experiment investigated whether empathic concern produces an egoistic motivation to reduce one's own distress or an altruistic motivation to reduce another person's distress. Subjects ( N = 120) were exposed to a person in distress and instructed either to observe the victim's reaction (personal distress) or to imagine the ...
David A Schroeder +4 more
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Distinguishing Empathic Concern from Personal Distress
2023Abstract Distinguishing empathic concern from personal distress can be done with the six-item Empathic Concern Index and an eight-item Distress Index, items for which are also embedded in the Emotional Response Scale. Statistical analyses indicating the distinctiveness of these emotional states are reported.
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Playing Video Games Cooperatively Increases Empathic Concern
Social Psychology, 2013Two studies addressed whether playing video games cooperatively in a team would increase emphatic concern toward others in need. Study 1 showed that cooperative team-play ameliorates the negative effects of violent video game play on empathy. Both those participants who had played a violent video game cooperatively in a team and participants who had ...
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