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Two experiments demonstrate that highly empathetic messages conveyed by a political candidate produce more favorable attitudes and increase the likelihood individuals will vote for the political candidate. Study 1 revealed this Empathetic Communication Effect is stronger among female political candidates than male. Compared to male candidates, female candidates are evaluated more positively when they engage in empathetic language but are more harshly penalized when they fail to display empathy. An analogous pattern emerged for candidate party in Study 2. Namely, the Empathetic Communication Effect is stronger among Democratic political candidates than Republican political candidates. Results also explore the impact of empathetic rhetoric on perceptions of candidates' socio-emotionality and instrumentality. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion

This paper is published simultaneously by the European University Institute as a School of Transnational Governance Report. ; The EU may not be a superpower but it holds a 'power surplus' when it comes to the trade-regulatory nexus. The strategic challenges posed by the deployment of this power surplus are the subject of this paper, which argues that in order to be a responsible regulatory power and positively influence the multilateral agenda, the EU needs to develop a coherent overall approach to the external dimension of its regulatory policies. In this spirit, and in most cases, the EU would be ill advised to project itself as a model or to seek to 'weaponise' its regulatory powers in pursuit of unrelated foreign policy goals. Instead, it should wield this power to enhance the regulatory compatibility between its own and others' jurisdictions through cooperation rather than relying on the passive market-based influence of the so-called Brussels effect. This is simply a way to be faithful to its core defining philosophy of legal empathy. The CEPS Policy Insight by authors Ignacio Garcia Bercero and Kalypso Nicolaides offers a typology of different forms of external EU regulatory impact, a discussion of the risks of either underuse or overuse of the regulatory power surplus, and considers the 'good global governance' model implied by a principled geopolitical role. It moves on to discuss a unifying conceptual framework to encompass this approach, under the umbrella of 'managed mutual recognition' as the operationalisation of legal empathy. It concludes with six specific suggestions as to how the EU can best exercise its regulatory power through a closer integration of trade and regulatory policies. ; Introduction -- Cooperation as residual: the global impact of EU regulatory policies -- The EU's regulatory power surplus: how should it be used? -- An integrated approach to managed mutual recognition: legal empathy and the regulatory compatibility paradigm -- Recommendations: globalising legal empathy -- Postscript

AbstractThis study investigated the relationships between affective and cognitive empathy, social preference and perceived popularity, and involvement in bullying situations by bullying others or defending the victimized children. The participants were 266 primary and 195 secondary school students. Affective and cognitive empathy, as well as the status variables, had some significant main effects on involvement in bullying. In addition, several interaction effects emerged. For instance, the positive association between affective empathy and defending behavior was stronger among boys who had a high status (i.e., were highly preferred) in the group. The results highlight the importance of studying child‐by‐environment models, which take into account both child characteristics and interpersonal variables in predicting social adjustment.

This paper discusses the relationships between fiction and working lives by exploring the roles of empathy and sustainability in how people read and perceive fiction in relation to their own private and working lives. The paper problematizes some notions manifesting within these relationships by discussing how ideology infiltrates both the understanding of concepts themselves as well as how they relate to each other. Hence, it thereby discusses how the individual experience of fiction has an effect on behavior but is influenced by ideological beliefs about society which are largely implicit to the reader herself. It thereby explains why fiction does not always enhance empathy. Using the distinction between aesthetic and ethical good, the paper elucidates how fiction may sustain an ideological version of empathy, and thus sustaining contemporary practices in the workplace and the economic system. The paper finishes with an exploration of how fiction may enable a reader to become aware of ideology, thereby opening possibilities to achieve more viable forms of social sustainability.

Intro -- Contents -- Part One: Learning to Take Perspective -- Chapter One: Viewing the World Through Different Eyes -- Chapter Two: The Thinking-Feeling Spiral -- Chapter Three: Strategies for Perspective Taking -- Part Two: Social Studies Themes and Activities -- Chapter Four: Through Our Memories -- The Personal History Suitcase -- Family Heritage Stories -- Family Heritage Through Literature -- Chapter Five: Through Our Work -- Children at Work -- The Snow Tiger -- A Stitch in Time -- Wishes and Dreams -- Chapter Six: Through Our Migrations -- The Buddha Statue -- Story Cloths -- The Trail of Tears -- Radio Message Center -- Snapshots of Life in My New Country -- Chapter Seven: Through Conflict and Change -- No Loyal Citizen -- People in the Revolution -- Current Conflicts -- References -- Bibliography

AbstractThis article critiques the lack of literature on community college student leadership development and highlights the importance of community colleges as producers of social justice leaders and promoters of positive social change. This article examines how community college educators in the field of sociology prepare their students for success in their personal lives, careers, and communities through liberatory pedagogy, which instills empathy in their students, a core element of the social, action, leadership, and transformation (SALT) model.

AbstractThis study examined the intervening role of empathy in the relations between identity styles (i.e., information‐oriented, normative, and diffuse‐avoidant styles), and inter‐personal behaviors (i.e., prosocial behavior, self‐ and other‐oriented helping, and physical and relational aggression). In a sample of 341 emerging adults, it was found that an information‐oriented style relates to a more adaptive pattern of interpersonal behaviors whereas a normative or a diffuse‐avoidant identity style relate to a more maladaptive pattern of interpersonal behaviors. Empathy played an intervening role between the information‐oriented style and interpersonal behavior, and between the diffuse‐avoidant style and interpersonal behavior. However, empathy did not intervene between the normative style and interpersonal behavior. Implications for future research are discussed.

We aimed to set a precedent for the sociocultural education of preschool children by qualitatively analyzing the Battle of Gallipoli, which has an important place in Turkish history. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was carried out in 2 stages with groups of 6-year-old children:
a pilot study (n = 11) and the main application (n = 13). In the main application, participants completed a series of activities, comprising listening to songs, participating in drama skits, drawing pictures, and writing letters. The main aim of these activities was to determine
participants' level of empathic thinking skills. Our findings showed that, within the context of sociocultural education, 6-year-old children can empathize and use dynamic and static imagination types, and that they have a sense of history and understand the concept of time. Thus, we recommend
that sociocultural education topics be included in the current preschool curriculum in Turkey.