PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Dilemma, Meta-Analysis, Gender Role
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Empathy involves feeling the same emotion as another person / feeling sympathy /compassion for another: meta-analysis sex difference in empathy favouring females. Empathy involves feeling the same emotion as another person / feeling sympathy /compassion for another: meta-analysis reveals sex difference in empathy favouring females, empathy, d = 0. 18, moderator: measurement, larger for self report than observation. Females are more likely to rate themselves as more empathetic than males for experiencing similar levels of empathy: no difference when physiological measures are used, difference not just because girls are expected to be more empathetic. Infant girls more prone to contagious crying girls score higher ton implicit measure of empathy: moderator: how empathy is defined, kindness, consideration advantage females. Instrumental help advantage males: moderator: age of target, adult target advantage females. Empathetic accuracy: ability to infer a person"s thoughts/feelings. Empathetic accuracy paradigm: watch a video of another person talking and judge their thoughts and feelings.
