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| Title |
Parents’ empathic perspective taking and altruistic behavior predicts infants’ arousal to others’ emotions
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00360 |
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| Authors |
Michaela B. Upshaw, Cheryl R. Kaiser, Jessica A. Sommerville |
| Abstract |
Empathy emerges in children's overt behavior around the middle of the second year of life. Younger infants, however, exhibit arousal in response to others' emotional displays, which is considered to be a precursor to fully developed empathy. The goal of the present study was to investigate individual variability in infants' arousal toward others' emotional displays, as indexed by 12- and 15-month-old infants' (n = 49) pupillary changes in response to another infant's emotions, and to determine whether such variability is linked to parental empathy and prosociality, as indexed via self-report questionnaires. We found that increases in infants' pupil dilation in response to others' emotional displays were associated with aspects of parental empathy and prosociality. Specifically, infants who exhibited the greatest arousal in response to others' emotions had parents who scored highly on empathic perspective taking and self-reported altruism. These relations may have been found because arousal toward others' emotions shares certain characteristics with empathic and prosocial dispositions. Together, these results demonstrate the presence of early variability in a precursor to mature empathic responding in infancy, which is meaningfully linked to parents' empathic dispositions and prosocial behaviors. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 23 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 13% |
| Germany | 2 | 9% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 57% |
| Scientists | 7 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 9% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 82 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 80 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 26% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 12% |
| Researcher | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 53 | 65% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 06 June 2015.
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