Essays about: "Marieclaire Overton"

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  1. 1. For Future Reference; Cognitive Empathy is Augmented Over Temporal Distance: An investigation of temporal distance influence on empathy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Marieclaire Overton; [2010]
    Keywords : Vignette Method; Perspective Taking; Construal Level Theory; Temporal distance; Empathy; Emotional Empathy; Cognitive Empathy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The goal of this experiments was to investigate a possible link between emotional and cognitive empathy and temporal distance. Along the lines of the Affect dependent time discounting hypothesis (Liberman & Trope, 2000) it is proposed that emotional reactions to empathic events decrease with temporal distance and cognitive reactions to the same empathic events increase. READ MORE