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| Title |
The influence of empathic concern on prosocial behavior in children
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00425 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Amanda Williams, Kelly O’Driscoll, Chris Moore |
| Abstract |
This research explored the influence of empathic distress on prosocial behavior in a resource allocation task with children. Children were randomly assigned to one of two conditions before engaging in a sticker sharing task; watching either a video of a girl upset that her dog had gone missing (emotion induction condition), or a video of the same girl preparing for a yard sale (control condition). In study one, 5-6 year old children in the emotion induction condition rated the emotional state of both the protagonist and the self more negatively, and also exhibited more prosocial behavior; sharing more in advantageous inequity (AI) trials, and less often withholding a benefit in disadvantageous inequity trials, than the control group. Prosocial behavior was significantly correlated with ratings of the emotional state of the protagonist but not with own emotional state, suggesting that empathic concern rather than personal distress was the primary influence on prosocial behavior. In study two, 3-year-olds were tested on AI trials alone, and like the 5 and 6-year-olds, showed more prosocial behavior in the emotion induction condition than the control. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 282 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 277 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 57 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 50 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 42 | 15% |
| Researcher | 21 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 7% |
| Other | 29 | 10% |
| Unknown | 64 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 166 | 59% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 12 | 4% |
| Unknown | 74 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 May 2020.
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