The Influence of Trait Empathy on Implicit Altruism
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.109How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- empathy, altruism, implicit association experiment
- Abstract
The influence of empathy on personal altruism is a hot topic in international research in recent years. Through combing the previous studies on empathy and altruism, it is found that those studies get contradictory results. Therefore, in this study, implicit association text were used to explore whether there are differences in implicit altruism among people with different empathy abilities. According to the average score of Interpersonal Reactivity Index, 67 subjects were divided into high empathy group and low empathy group. The accuracy, response time and IAT effect (response time of incompatible task less response time of compatible task) of the implicit altruism experiment were compared between the two groups. The results showed that compared with the incompatible tasks, the compatible task had higher accuracy and shorter response time. In addition, the IAT effect of the high empathy group was significantly greater than that of the low empathy group, indicating that the higher the empathy was, the more automatic the altruistic tendency was. This study provides some supporting evidence for the promotion of altruistic behavior by empathic education.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xie Ma AU - Danna Luo AU - Ting Deng AU - Yun Tao PY - 2021 DA - 2021/08/09 TI - The Influence of Trait Empathy on Implicit Altruism BT - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 584 EP - 588 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.109 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.109 ID - Ma2021 ER -