Perspective taking instructions and self-other overlap: Different motives for helping

Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 224 - 234
Published: Apr 1, 2014
Abstract
In two studies (N’s = 57 and 115), we demonstrate that type of perspective-taking instruction (“imagine self” vs. “imagine other”) differentially affects two motives for helping: self-other overlap and empathic concern. Imagine-self instructions produce greater self-other overlap than imagine-target and objective instructions, while both types of perspective-taking instruction promote empathic concern relative to an objective condition. In Study...
Paper Details
Title
Perspective taking instructions and self-other overlap: Different motives for helping
Published Date
Apr 1, 2014
Volume
38
Issue
2
Pages
224 - 234
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