Empathy and Attitudes: Can Feeling for a Member of a Stigmatized Group Improve Feelings Toward the Group?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-118

  Batson, C Daniel ^b   Polycarpou, Marina P ^c   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a   Imhoff, Heidi J ^c   Mitchener, Erin C ^c   Bednar, Lori L ^c   Klein, Tricia R ^c   Highberger, Lori ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PREJUDICE; PRISONERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030636726     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.1.105     Document Type: Article

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