Distancing from a target person with cancer: the role of empathy-inducing instructions and family history of cancer.
The authors tested the proposition that people distance themselves more from a target person with cancer when they have no family history of cancer and receive no empathy-inducing instructions. The authors also tested the proposition that men distance themselves more from a person with cancer than do women. The results confirm the prediction regarding family history and empathy, but they did not confirm the prediction about gender.
Whitehead
George I
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Psychology Department, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801, USA. giwhitehead@salisbury.edu
Smith
Stephanie H
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D004645:Empathy; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology