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  • Empathy, group norms, and children's ethnic attitudes

    Author(s)
    Nesdale, Drew
    Griffiths, Judith
    Durkin, Kevin
    Maass, Anne
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Nesdale, Drew R.
    Griffiths, Judith A.
    Year published
    2005
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    Two minimal group studies (Ns = 150, 123) examined the impact of emotional empathy on the ethnic attitudes of 5 to 12-year old white Anglo-Australian children. Study 1 evaluated the relationship between empathy and attitudes towards a same (Anglo-Australian) versus different ethnicity (Pacific Islander) outgroup. A significant empathy נoutgroup ethnicity interaction revealed that empathy was unrelated to the children's liking for the same ethnicity outgroup, but that liking for the different ethnicity outgroup increased as empathy increased. Study 2 examined the influence of empathy on attitudes towards the different ethnicity ...
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    Two minimal group studies (Ns = 150, 123) examined the impact of emotional empathy on the ethnic attitudes of 5 to 12-year old white Anglo-Australian children. Study 1 evaluated the relationship between empathy and attitudes towards a same (Anglo-Australian) versus different ethnicity (Pacific Islander) outgroup. A significant empathy נoutgroup ethnicity interaction revealed that empathy was unrelated to the children's liking for the same ethnicity outgroup, but that liking for the different ethnicity outgroup increased as empathy increased. Study 2 examined the influence of empathy on attitudes towards the different ethnicity outgroup when the ingroup had a norm of inclusion versus exclusion. A significant empathy נgroup norm interaction revealed that empathy was unrelated to liking when the ingroup had a norm of exclusion, but that liking for the different ethnicity outgroup increased when the ingroup had a norm of inclusion. Implications of the findings for promoting children's positive attitudes to ethnic minority groups are discussed.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
    Volume
    26
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2005.08.003
    Subject
    Psychology
    Cognitive Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4775
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