The Influence of Trait Empathy on Implicit Altruism

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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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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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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  -