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

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

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...

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Main Author: Aaron Castelán Cargile
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-11-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016676297
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spelling doaj-294438306e5e4f5489bbefea1e2a8e5b2020-11-25T03:40:30ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402016-11-01610.1177/215824401667629710.1177_2158244016676297Can Video Engender Empathic Concern for Others? Testing a Positive Affect Arousing InterventionAaron Castelán Cargile0California State University, Long Beach, USAEmpathy 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.https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016676297
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description 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.
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