Purpose: This study aimed to identify changes in sub-areas of empathy over the 4 years from admission graduation nursing college students.Methods: descriptive survey was conducted using a longitudinal cohort design. The participants this were 158 South Korean students attending university Chungcheongbuk Province or Gyeonggi Province, all whom passed certification evaluation for 4-year education...

Despite the importance of perspective taking for navigating the social world, even healthy adults frequently misinterpret what other people think and feel. Yet, to date, no research examines whether perspective-taking accuracy can be improved among healthy adult samples. Building off of work suggesting that social working memory (SWM) capacity (i.e., the ability to maintain and manipulate socia...

Empathy is a basic socio-emotional process of human development that involves the ability to perceive, share, and understand the emotional states of others. This process is essential to successful social functioning. However, despite its significance, empathy has been difficult to define and measure, particularly when incorporating both its emotional and cognitive aspects. The purpose of this s...

This study aimed to test whether individual differences in perspective taking could be explained with two underpinning cognitive dimensions: The ability to handle the conflict between our egocentric perspective and another person’s perspective and the relative attentional focus during processing on the egocentric perspective versus another person’s perspective. We conducted cluster analyses on ...

Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system. However, it is not clear whether these two systems are part of a single interacting empathy system or whether they are independent. Additionally, the neuroanatomical bases of these systems are largely unknown. In this study, we tes...

Females frequently score higher on standard tests of empathy, social sensitivity, and emotion recognition than do males. It remains to be clarified, however, whether these gender differences are associated with gender specific neural mechanisms of emotional social cognition. We investigated gender differences in an emotion attribution task using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects e...

The Use of Emotional Regulation Strategies in Reducing Test Anxiety during Test-Taking E. AryanaKia J. Hassani, Ph.D. It is well known that the use of emotional regulation strategies can reduce negative emotional experiences including anxiety. However, does the use of such strategies while taking an exam result in reducing test anxiety? To answer this question a cluster sample of 3...