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Better Living Through Perspective Taking
People behave better – more acceptably, more admirably, more prosocially – after perspective taking. First, perspective taking has been consistently found to increase compassionate emotions (commonly called em...
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Although empathic accuracy is considered a stable skill, few individual difference measures consistently predict performance on Ickes’ (e.g., 2001) empathic accuracy measure. Because past work has shown that w...
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We examined sex differences in the prevalence, incidence, reasons for, and consequences of infidelity. Participants (Study 1, 543 undergraduates in the Northwestern US; Study 2, 313 undergraduates and 233 comm...
