ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Social Information Processing of Others' Distress: Implications for Parenting and Children's Empathy
- Jessica Stern
University of Virginia - Benner Morgan
University of Maryland, College Park - Patton David
University of Maryland, College Park - Jude Cassidy
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Differences in how individuals interpret others' distress have important consequences for social interactions. In a study of parents and young children, we examine how individual differences in adult processing of child distress shape parents' empathy, and in turn, children's empathic responses to a stranger's distress.
Social Cognition
