Physical cue influences children’s empathy for pain: The role of attention allocation

Empathy for pain is evolutionally important and context-dependent. The current study explored the effect of physical cue on 4- to 5-year-old children’s empathy for pain with two experiments. Experiment 1 investigated the effect of valid and invalid physical cue as compared to baseline (without cue)...

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Main Authors: Zhiqiang Yan, Meng Pei, Yanjie Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A.
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02378/full