Long-Term Relations Among Prosocial-Media Use, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 358-368

  Prot, Sara ^a   Gentile, Douglas A ^a   Anderson, Craig A ^a   Suzuki, Kanae ^b   Swing, Edward ^a   Lim, Kam Ming ^c   Horiuchi, Yukiko ^d   Jelic, Margareta ^e   Krahé, Barbara ^f   Liuqing, Wei ^g   Liau, Albert K ^c   Khoo, Angeline ^c   Petrescu, Poesis Diana ^h   Sakamoto, Akira ^d   Tajima, Sachi ⁱ   Toma, Roxana Andreea ^h   Warburton, Wayne ^j   Zhang, Xuemin ^g   Lam, Ben Chun Pan ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

ⁱ Department of Psychology Kantogakuen University   (Japan)

^j MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

cross cultural differences; empathy; general learning model; helping; mass media; prediction; prosocial behavior; prosocial media; social behavior; violent media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPATHY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATION; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL MEDIA; UTILIZATION; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMPATHY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893555740     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613503854     Document Type: Article

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