introduction empathy is believed to play an important role in fostering prosocial behavior and social competence. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of empathy teaching on aggression and compatibility in female students of elementary sixth grade in yazd, center of iran. materials and methods the samples were 62 girl students of grade 6 in elementary schools that were selected ...

Recent findings indicate that events in video games, as well as players' perceptions of game characters, moderate well-established video game effects. This includes the level of identification with game characters, and players' interpretation of whether or not the actions of the characters are conceived as moral. In the present study, it was tested whether manipulating empathy for well-known ga...

Previous neuroimaging studies on empathy have not clearly identified neural systems that support the three components of empathy: affective congruence, perspective-taking, and prosocial motivation. These limitations stem from a focus on a single emotion per study, minimal variation in amount of social context provided, and lack of prosocial motivation assessment. In the current investigation, 3...

background : problems stemming from individuals' reactions to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer have various effects on the different dimensions of individuals and families' lives such as deficient attitudes, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts. the study aim was determining the effectiveness of self-talk technique and positive empathy in reducing symptoms and modifying deficient att...

This study investigated relationships between emphatic skills and moral judgment competence among 180 adolescents, 170 early adults, and 150 adults (N = 500). Participants completed a battery of measures including the Basic Empathy Scale, the Moral Judgment Test, and the Demographic questionnaire. Results of this crosssectional study have confirmed the expected findings. Adolescents' and early ...

The main aim of this study was to test hypothetical associations between personality dimensions and empathy scores in medical students. The Portuguese version of NEO-FFI was administered in order to characterize participants in terms of five personality traits: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience, and Conscientiousness. Self-reported empathy measures were obtained w...

Three experiments (N ^ 370) investigated the effects of social categorization on the experience of empathy. In Experiment I, university students reported their empathy for, and intentions to help, a student v^ho described a distressful experience. As predicted, participants reported stronger empathy and helping intentions when ^ e student belonged to an ingroup compared to an outgroup universit...