Can Video Engender Empathic Concern for Others? Testing a Positive Affect Arousing Intervention:

SAGE Open

Aaron Castelán Cargile¹ 

关键词: emotion;    experimental psychology;    psychology;    social sciences;    applied psychology;    educational research;    education;    positive psychology;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244016676297

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Empathy is widely recognized as the psychological foundation for prosocial behavior, yet very little is known about methods to increase affective empathy in students and trainees. The present research sought to assess the reliability and potential boundary conditions of one such intervention—a brief emotional video featuring a boy diagnosed with cancer. Study 1 found that the video succeeded in indirectly increasing empathic concern for an African American victim of police abuse among an ethnically diverse student sample in a classroom setting. Study 2 replicated the effect in an online environment among a population of near-racially homogeneous adults. The effect of this brief, convenient, positive-affect intervention is in line with other practice-based and negative-affect interventions.

【 授权许可】

CC BY