Empathy's Relation to Appraisal of the Emotional Child Witness
| Autor: | Gail S. Goodman, Deborah Goldfarb, Daniel Bederian-Gardner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Empathy Witness 050105 experimental psychology Structural equation modeling Developmental psychology Sadness Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Feeling Expression (architecture) 050501 criminology Developmental and Educational Psychology Verdict 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Relation (history of concept) Psychology Social psychology 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Applied Cognitive Psychology. 31:488-499 |
| ISSN: | 0888-4080 |
| Popis: | Summary When observing others, we often try to determine how they ‘really feel’ deep down inside (emotional feeling) regardless of their outward expression (emotional appearance). We examined whether child victim empathy predicts appraisal of a child sexual assault victim's emotional feelings and, in turn, child and defendant believability and verdict decisions. Undergraduates (N = 50) rated photographs of 5- and 13-year-olds' degree of sadness. Then, a new group of undergraduates (N = 354), randomly assigned within a 2 (victim age) × 2 (victim gender) × 3 (victim sadness: low, medium, and high/teary) factorial design, read trial scenarios accompanied by one of the photographs. Participants rated the victim's emotional feeling and emotional appearance, victim and defendant believability, defendant guilt, and confidence in their verdict. A structural equation model that included a relation between empathy and emotion appraisal fit the data well: Empathy predicted appraisal of the victim's feelings, which, in turn, predicted perceived believability. Implications are discussed.Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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