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Robinson, Ross; Roberts, William L.; Strayer, Janet; Koopman, Ray – Social Development, 2007
Two groups of male adolescents, incarcerated young offenders (N = 64, mean age = 16.3 years) and a comparison group of community youth (N = 60; mean age = 16.6 years), were administered the Empathy Continuum (measuring cognitive-affective responses to persons in emotionally evocative videotaped vignettes) and questionnaire measures of empathy,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Anxiety
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Cohen, Douglas; Strayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1996
For adolescent conduct-disordered (CD) and comparison (NC) youth, affective and cognitive aspects of empathy were measured by a self-report questionnaire and by responses to videotaped vignettes. Compared to NC youth, CD youth exhibited lower empathy, reported fewer emotions concordant with vignette persons' emotions, and reported fewer correct…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Response, Empathy
Strayer, Janet – 1985
The emotional impact of televised interpersonal dramas was investigated, with specific emphasis being given to age- and gender-related differences in children's spontaneous nonverbal expressive reactions. Participants were 27 female and 22 male children in three age groups: 4-5, 7-8, and 13-14 years. Facial expressions were unobtrusively…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
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Strayer, Janet; Schroeder, Marianne – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Examines the role of others' emotions and children's responsive empathy with those emotions in the context of children's motivation to help others. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Emotional Response
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Strayer, Janet – Child Development, 1993
Examined children's emotional and cognitive responses to emotionally evocative vignettes. Results indicated age-related increases in children's responses. Found limited increases with age in children's concordant emotions, or emotions identical to emotions of persons in the vignettes, and continuous increases with age in children's attributions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development