PSY 3121 Lecture 6: Lecture 4
6 Feb 2019
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Do people know their own abilities, or will they distort their abilities in the direction of the ability they ought to have: perhaps observing behavior is a better method to assess social abilities. One concern with self-report measures is demand characteristics. Undoubtedly, men and women realize that women are supposed to be more empathic than men. Thus women and men may distort their self-reports of behavior in the direction of gender-role norms. However, there were no gender differences in the physiological responses to the pictures. Demand characteristics: yet some argue that gender differences in empathy are not entirely due to demand characteristics (christov- Eisenhower and fabes, 1998 meta-analysis: a second moderator variable in the meta-analysis was how empathy was defined. Helping behaviour : a 1986 meta-analysis: according to an older meta-analysis of helping behavior (eagly & crowley, 1986), women are not necessarily more helpful than men. The effect was in the direction of males helping more than females (d =
