Dispositional empathy, emotional display authenticity, and employee outcomes.

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (9) ◽  
pp. 1036-1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry S. Y. Aw ◽  
Remus Ilies ◽  
Irene E. De Pater
Keyword(s):  
Employee Outcomes ◽  
Emotional Display ◽  
Dispositional Empathy

Strategic Emotional Display

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongmei Liu ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Longzen Wu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Display

Supervisor implicit theory of ability and employee outcomes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Risavy ◽  
Chester Kam ◽  
Wei Qi Elaine Perunovic
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Theory ◽  
Employee Outcomes

Empathy Does Not Amplify Vicarious Threat Learning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lane Williams ◽  
Christopher C Conway
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Defensive Response ◽  
Conditioned Stimuli ◽  
Defensive Reaction ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
Conditioned Responses ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Stimulus Materials ◽  
Dispositional Empathy

Clinically significant fears and phobias can be acquired vicariously. Witnessing a demonstrator’s defensive reaction to potentially dangerous objects and situations can instill conditioned threat responses in the observer. The present study concentrates on individual differences in this social learning process. Specifically, we hypothesized that dispositional empathy modulates vicarious threat conditioning. We examined university students’ (N = 150) conditioned threat responding after they observed strangers undergo Pavlovian threat conditioning. There was evidence of a substantial conditioned defensive response (Cohen’s d = 0.66), as indexed by elevated skin conductance reactions during participants’ direct exposure to the vicariously conditioned stimuli. Contrary to expectations, indices of dispositional empathy were weakly related to the size of conditioned responses (median r = .04). Our results confirm that vicarious threat learning can be evaluated experimentally, but they do not support the hypothesis that empathy amplifies this process. The preregistration, stimulus materials, data, and analysis code for this study are available at https://osf.io/h6hm2.

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