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Peer reviewedBengtsson, Hans; Johnson, Lena – Child Study Journal, 1992
Examined the relationship between perspective taking in response to another's distress and prosocial behavior and dispositional affective empathy in late childhood. The tendency to reflect spontaneously on the inner experience of others who are unfortunate was positively related to prosocial behavior in boys and to affective empathy in both sexes.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Empathy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLeung, Jupian J.; Foster, Stephen F. – Child Study Journal, 1985
Effects of preaching, recipient deservingness, personality attractiveness, and sex of subjects on pledging and donating behaviors were investigated with fifth and sixth graders. Findings are discusssed in terms of (1) saliency of stimulus object and children's stereotyping of the elderly; (2) children's conception of relationship between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
