The Effects of Empathy on Search Efforts for Missing Persons

Autor/inn/en	Saraqini, Dea; Stear, Cassie; Moore, Kara
Titel	The Effects of Empathy on Search Efforts for Missing Persons
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34 (2020) 5, S.1207-1216 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Moore, Kara)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3686
Schlagwörter	Empathy; Victims of Crime; Investigations; Memory; Intention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empathie; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Untersuchung; Gedächtnis
Abstract	People have difficulty sighting missing persons, partially because people's limited cognitive resources are required for searching. As a result, people sometimes do not devote resources to searching. This research will examine whether empathy increases the resources devoted to searching and search performance. In Experiment 1, we will manipulate empathy toward a formerly missing person and measure willingness to volunteer to search and actual search performance. In Experiment 2, we will manipulate empathy felt toward a missing person. We will measure the time participants spend studying the missing person's photograph. We hypothesize that participants induced to feel empathy will indicate more willingness to search (Exp 1 & 2), put more effort toward searching (Exp 1), and spend more time studying the photograph (Exp 2) than those not induced to feel empathy. If empathy increases search effort and performance, it could be induced in actual missing persons cases to increase recovery rates. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01