Sympathy for the underdog: people are inclined to adopt the emotional perspective of powerless (versus powerful) others
| Autor: | Alexandre Foncelle, Eric Chabanat, François Quesque, Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst, Elodie Barat, Yves Rossetti |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Hôpital Henry Gabrielle [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Perspective-taking
Male media_common.quotation_subject Emotions 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Power (social and political) [SCCO]Cognitive science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Referential ambiguity Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common Emotion 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Gender Identity Mentalizing Social Perception Power Sympathy [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology Female Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition and Emotion Cognition and Emotion, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021, pp.1-16. ⟨10.1080/02699931.2021.1902282⟩ Cognition and Emotion, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2021, 35 (5), pp.902-917. ⟨10.1080/02699931.2021.1902282⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0269-9931 1464-0600 |
| Popis: | International audience; Upon learning of the story of Cinderella, most people spontaneously adopt the emotional perspective of this helpless young woman rather than of her older sisters who oppress her. The present research examines whether this pattern reveals a general human tendency to empathise more with the emotions of individuals with low (versus high) power. Six experiments (N = 878) examined how power influences the focus of people’s emotional attributions. Participants were presented with situations in which one character exercised power over another one and had to resolve a referential ambiguity by considering the perspective of one or the other character. Results show that participants largely privileged the emotional states of the low-power character over those of the high-power character. This effect was observed with different types of stimuli (comics and video clips), with high- and low-power roles attributed to pairs of different genders (Experiments 1–4) or same gender (Experiments 5–6). Finally, the tendency persisted – though it was reduced – when participants adopted a less passive role with respect to the characters (Experiment 3) and when power occurred in a less despotic way (Experiment 6). Results are discussed with respect to social attention and sensitivity to fairness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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