‘I KNOW HOW THEY MUST FEEL’: EMPATHY AND JUDGING DEFENDANTS

The current study investigated the effects of state and trait empathy in legal judgments and tested the relationship between trait and state emotion in one hundred and fifty eight students aged 18-59. Assessments were taken of participants’ trait empathy and then state empathy was induced in half t...

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Main Authors: Jane L Wood, Mark James, Caoilte Ó Ciardha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense 2014-01-01
Series:European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
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Online Access:http://www.webs.uvigo.es/sepjf/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=66&Itemid=110&lang=es