Charitable Behavior: An Examination of the Transfer of Empathy.

Autor/inn/en	Barnett, Mark A.; und weitere
Titel	Charitable Behavior: An Examination of the Transfer of Empathy.
Quelle	(1980), (18 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adolescents; Altruism; Empathy; High School Students; Personality Traits; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Empathie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	High school students who had been pretested on the Mehrabian and Epstein (1972) measure of empathy were shown a brief videotaped presentation designed to elicit empathic arousal for a particular group of children (mentally retarded or crippled). Each individual was subsequently given an opportunity to act charitably for a recipient group which was identified as either (1) the same group of children who had been previously described in the presentation or (2) a different group. Individuals in the control group were shown a presentation of an affectively-neutral topic prior to the opportunity to help. Highly empathic adolescents were found to be more charitable than their relatively less empathic counterparts. Moreover, the findings indicated that empathy for a particular target, once aroused, may "transfer" and subsequently enhance charitable behaviors towards recipients who did not serve as the original source of the individual's concern. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01