Empathy and attitudes: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group improve feelings toward the group?

被引：929

作者：

Batson, CD ^{[1
]}

Polycarpou, MP ^{[1
]}

Harmon-Jones, E ^{[1
]}

Imhoff, HJ ^{[1
]}

Mitchener, EC ^{[1
]}

Bednar, LL ^{[1
]}

Klein, TR ^{[1
]}

Highberger, L ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV TEXAS, DEPT PSYCHOL, ARLINGTON, TX 76019 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY | 1997年 / 72卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.105

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Results of 3 experiments suggest that feeling empathy for a member of a stigmatized group can improve attitudes toward the group as a whole. In Experiments 1 and 2, inducing empathy for a young woman with AIDS (Experiment 1) or a homeless man (Experiment 2) led to more positive attitudes toward people with AIDS or toward the homeless, respectively Experiment 3 tested possible limits of the empathy-attitude effect by inducing empathy toward a member of a highly stigmatized group, convicted murderers, and measuring attitudes toward this group immediately and then 1-2 weeks later. Results provided only weak evidence of improved altitudes toward murderers immediately but strong evidence of improved attitudes 1-2 weeks later.

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页码：105 / 118

页数：14

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