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    "pk": 50482,
    "title": "Contextual Malleability of Empathy: Effects of Trait Level, Group",
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    "abstract": "Empathy was mainly considered a stable trait, and few studies have investigated whether\nit can vary across different situations. This investigation explores how contextual empathy\nof study participants varies across different social group relationship and positive/negative\nevent valence. In this study, participants were divided into high- or low-empathy group by\ntheir scores of Empathy Scale. The in/out group membership was manipulated through a\npoint estimation paradigm, and event valence was operationalized by the emotion status\nof the character in the story event. As expected, results showed main effects across all\nfactors that participants demonstrated contextual empathy differently. More importantly, an\ningroup bias is significantly emerged, with participants exhibiting enhanced contextual\nempathy toward ingroup than outgroup character. Furthermore, positive story events\nelicited more contextual empathic responses than negative events. These findings\nevidently provide an empirical support for the context-dependent nature of empathy,\nchallenging its traditional conceptualization as an invariant trait.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Emotion Perception; Empathy; Event cognition; Group Behaviour; Social cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94j0g8qz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yen-Cheng",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Chen Jung",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Shu-Ling",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Peng",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Po-Sheng",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Huang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Taiwan University of Science and Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jon-Fan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yi Ping",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hsu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Huan-Yu",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Pi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Cheng Kung University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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