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Download full textBarton, Keith C. – 1996
This study examines the ability of students to develop empathy for peoples of the past and to avoid the belief that people in the past were no different than today. The paper reports the results of a year-long qualitative investigation of fourth and fifth graders' attempts to understand the values, attitudes, and beliefs of people in the past. The…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Empathy, Grade 4, Grade 5
Barnett, Mark A.; Thompson, Shannon – 1984
This study examined the interactive role of empathic disposition and affective perspective-taking ability (APT) in children's machiavellianism, prosocial behavior, and motive for helping. Children demonstrating low empathy and high APT were expected to be highly machiavellian and to cite self-oriented reasons for helping more frequently than would…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Empathy
