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Disengagement Is as Revealing as Prosocial Action for Young Children's Responding to Strangers in Distress: How Personal Distress and Empathic Concern Come into Play
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Lin, Hung-Chu; Janice, Josephine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a paradigm of simulated stranger distress designed to elicit empathic arousal, this study examined multiple elements of responding in 61 preschoolers. Disengagement from stranger distress was underscored in addition to prosocial responding. All children encountered a female adult stranger feigning stomach ache followed by an infant manikin…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Prosocial Behavior, Stranger Reactions, Preschool Children