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Even though changes in adolescent empathy have been associated to changes in adolescent prosocial behaviour, studies examining this link on the within-person level are lacking.

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Even though changes in adolescent empathy have been associated to changes in adolescent prosocial behaviour, studies examining this link on the within-person level are lacking.

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  • Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations between empathy and prosocial behaviours during early adolescence (2021) · doi

    INTRODUCTION: Although empathy has been found to be related to prosocial behaviour, little is known about the longitudinal links between these two concepts during early adolescence, a unique window into developmental changes on empathy and prosocial behaviour considering the physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and contextual changes occurring during this period.

    Keywords: empathy prosocial behaviour changes introduction found related little known longitudinal links concepts early adolescence unique
  • Learning to ‘talk the talk’: the relationship of psychopathic traits to deficits in empathy across childhood (2009) · doi

    Despite a rapidly advancing neuroscience of empathy, little is known about the developmental underpinnings of this psychopathic disconnect between affective and cognitive empathy.

    Keywords: empathy despite rapidly advancing neuroscience little known developmental underpinnings psychopathic disconnect affective cognitive
  • Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations between empathy and prosocial behaviours during early adolescence (2021) · doi

    Even though changes in adolescent empathy have been associated to changes in adolescent prosocial behaviour, studies examining this link on the within-person level are lacking.

    Keywords: changes adolescent even though empathy associated prosocial behaviour examining link within person level lacking
  • Age, social‐cognitive development, and the use of comforting strategies (1984) · doi

    Although considerable research indicates that both functional communication skills and prosocial behaviors increase across childhood and adolescence, relatively few studies have examined developmental and individual differences in the prosocial communication skill of comforting.

    Keywords: communication prosocial considerable indicates functional skills behaviors increase across childhood adolescence relatively examined developmental individual
  • Development of Self and Empathy in Early Infancy (2000) · doi

    Understanding the relationship between development of sense of self and that of empathy is crucial not only for broadening our currently somewhat limited knowledge base regarding typical development in these areas, but also for our understanding atypical development.

    Keywords: development understanding relationship sense self empathy crucial broadening currently somewhat limited knowledge base regarding typical
  • Development of Empathy When Raising a Child in a Cultural Environment That Sanctions Aggression and Violence (2024) · doi

    RESEARCH RESULTS: The comparative study demonstrates the fact that there is a need to con- duct further research on the significance of the social and cultural factors that influence adolescents’ and children’s cognitive empathy development.

    Keywords: comparative demonstrates fact there need duct further significance social cultural factors influence adolescents children cognitive

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