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Comment on Marjanovic, Struthers, and Greenglass (2012). We build on the authors' ideas, data, and interpretations to suggest future avenues for research, focusing on situations that hold potential for empathic concern to shape helping responses. Specifically, we suggest investigating the time course of reactions to natural disasters and the group membership of the victims as moderators. Additionally, we suggest that considering different forms of helping responses and their predictors can shed theoretical light on variables that promote helping following natural disasters.

Increasing empathy toward others is an unspoken goal of many sociology courses, but rarely do instructors measure changes in empathy throughout a semester. To address this gap in the literature, I use a combination of quantitative and qualitative data gathered before and after students from five sociology classes participated in a simulation on domestic violence. I systematically evaluate whether students' levels of global empathy, empathetic responses toward victims, definitions of abuse, and propensity to agree with victim-blaming attitudes change after completing this experiential learning activity. Posttest results suggest a statistically significant but small increase in global empathy scores, a growth in empathetic responses toward victims, an expansion in students' definitions of abuse, and greater disagreement with victim-blaming attitudes. I discuss ways sociology instructors can use this simulation as a tool to help students comprehend a difficult subject matter while simultaneously engendering empathy toward victims of abuse.

In the article, the authors give a critical assessment of the procedure for conducting an interrogation using video conferencing systems at the preliminary investigation. The results of the study revealed a gap in the law in de-fining situations in which it is appropriate to conduct interrogation using videoconferencing. The author's pro-posals have been made to solve this problem by the investigators. The authors expressed the idea that it is necessary for the investigator to have an additional communication channel with persons who ensure the op-eration of video conferencing systems, and who take away a liability subscription and other materials from the interrogated person at his location. The methods of establishing remote empathy with the interrogated person are proposed by analogy with the methods of involving students in the distance learning format. The main tacti-cal techniques of emotional impact on the interrogated person and the effectiveness of their application by the investigator along with the use of videoconferencing systems are considered.

Based on the data of the Survey of Residents' Living and Psychological Conditions in Jiangsu Province, China in 2016, this article analyzed the influencing mechanism of individuals' moral behavior choices when facing a conflict between righteousness and self-interest. The binary logistic regression models indicated that individuals' choices of moral behaviors do not differ among various social classes. Empathy has a remarkable influence, but its impact mechanism is complex. The social environment has a significant effect, where malignant events have a stronger influence than others. Furthermore, social environment has more significant effect on individual moral behavior choices than empathy, so, creating a benevolent and harmonious social environment will allow the individual's empathy to come into full play.

The study intends to find out motivation behind domestic consumers' decision to buy domestic products by focusing on the role of social identity and empathy. Social identity helps to explain the position of local identity towards local products amidst myriad foreign products, and empathy helps to grasp the role of empathetic feeling towards local products that look inferior under foreign products domination. It does so by integrating theories of social identity, empathy and planned behavior. The novelty of this study lies on exploration of empathy in the relationship between national identity and domestic product purchasing intention, which is so far absent in management literature. Determination of sample size follows the rule of ten multiplications to indicator number. The respondents are consumers in a mall in Kendari. It applies convenient technique for sampling. It applies Smart PLS for data analysis. The results should be that empathy affects domestic purchasing intention and so does national identity on domestic purchasing intention, meaning that empathy partially mediates the effect of national identity on domestic product purchasing intention. Meanwhile, ethnocentrism leads to domestic purchasing intention, while national identity has significant effects on domestic product purchasing intention and ethnocentrism.

Empathy-induced cooperation, forgiveness, and "returning good for evil" in the Prisoner's Dilemma were investigated among Chinese participants. In Study 1, empathy for the partner promoted cooperation in a one-trial Prisoner's Dilemma and fostered forgiveness after the partner's defection. In Study 2, when the partner had defected beforehand in a sequential one-trial Prisoner's Dilemma, empathy manipulation showed no effect on "returning good for evil," but empathy fostered forgiveness. Expert-rating empathy from the note communication predicted "returning good for evil." Males showed more "returning good for evil" than females. Gender difference related to the effect of empathy on "returning good for evil" called for further investigation. The implication to the public personnel management in Chinese organizations was discussed.

Acting prosocially towards others may sometimes involve tangible costs to self, which can be associated with lower motivation to help those who have been the victims of injustice. In contrast to previous work which suggests that empathy does not shape the perceptions of injustice, the present research proposes that while perceptions of fairness in the context of injustice are dynamic, they may well be shaped by empathy. Using a dictator-style paradigm, the present research explored the extent to which empathy is related to perceptions of injustice and in turn, compensating forms of inequality. A non-registered Study 1 (N = 466) found that higher empathy predisposition is related to perceiving more injustice in contexts of inequality. Preregistered Study 2 (N = 406) extended this finding by experimentally manipulating empathy, showing that emphasising with the victim of inequality is indirectly related to perceiving injustice. The hypothesised mechanism, empathy allowing identification and experiencing the feelings of anger associated with the injustice, is supported in Study 2. As such, perceptions of fairness are not static; empathy is argued to be an important mechanism in forming justice perceptions. Data and supplementary materials: [DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/83V4U].

Enhancement of victim empathy is a common component in the treatment of sexual offenders. However, consensus about the definition of empathy and the best instrument to measure empathy in sexual offenders is lacking. This paper evaluates the Empat as a measure of empathy with patients civilly committed under California's Sexually Violent Predator law Rapists and child molesters in the current sample scored significantly higher in victim empathy than any of the original sex offender groups, with rapists scoring higher than the control group cited by M. McGrath, S. Cann, and R. Konopasky (1998). Clinicians have found the Empat to be too face valid and easily manipulated by patients within this population. The construct of empathy as applied to sex offenders is reviewed and the properties of a more adequate measure of this construct are suggested.

Assessing course goals is often challenging; assessing an abstract goal, like empathy, can be especially so. For many instructors, empathy is central to sociological thinking. As such, fostering empathy in students is a common course goal. In this article, we report the initial findings of a semester-long assessment of empathy change in undergraduate students ( N = 619). We employ a mixed-methods research design that utilizes qualitative instructor data to determine independent instructor-level variables and student surveys to measure student empathy change. We compare empathy change between students enrolled in introductory sociology classes to students not enrolled in sociology classes and test which student and instructor variables predict empathy change. We find that students taking sociology classes have positive empathy change compared to those who do not. We interpret these findings as evidence that study of sociology promotes empathy development and discuss implications for the classroom and further research.

Cristina Bredicean,1,2 Simona Claudia Tamasan,3 Diana Lungeanu,4 Catalina Giurgi-Oncu,1,5 Ileana-Pepita Stoica,6 Anca-Livia Panfil,3 Claudia Vasilian,3 Ica Secosan,7 Sorin Ursoniu,5,8 Raul Patrascu5,9 1NEUROPSY-COG Center for Cognitive Research in Neuropsychiatric Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania; 2Psychiatry Compartment, "Dr. Victor Popescu" Emergency Military Clinical Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; 3Liaison Psychiatry, "Pius Branzeu" County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; 4Center for Modeling Biological Systems and Data Analysis, Department of Functional Sciences, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania; 5"Pius Branzeu" County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; 6Mental Health Center, "Pius Branzeu" County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; 7Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, "Pius Branzeu" County Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania; 8Discipline of Public Health and Health Management, Center for Translational Research and Systems Medicine, Department of Functional Sciences, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania; 9Department of Functional Sciences, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, RomaniaCorrespondence: Diana LungeanuCenter for Modeling Biological Systems and Data Analysis, Department of Functional Sciences, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Piata Eftimie Murgu 2, Timisoara, 300041, RomaniaTel +40-256-190288Fax +40-256-190288Email dlungeanu@umft.roCatalina Giurgi-OncuNEUROPSY-COG Center for Cognitive Research in Neuropsychiatric Pathology, Department of Neuroscience, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Piata Eftimie Murgu 2, Timisoara, 300041, RomaniaEmail catalina.giurgi@umft.roPurpose: The year 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, massively disruptive at the general population level and for healthcare systems. We aimed to evaluate the psychological distress associated with work-related experiences among medical professionals and supporting staff during the pandemic outbreak.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted between April and May 2020, employing a self-administered on-line questionnaire that included the collection of socio-demographic and professional status information, Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and a subscale of the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) for empathy. A total of 364 professionals of the county-coordinated area responded. Descriptive statistics summarized the findings and a mediation model was analyzed, applying the causal step strategy. The specific direct and causal mediation effects were estimated with the bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap sampling method.Results: Anxiety, burnout, stress, resilience, and empathy proved to be significantly associated with both the professional category (ie, consultant, specialty doctor, trainee doctor, senior nurse, trainee nurse or other) and the perceived professional support (the nonparametric multivariate permutation test resulted in p=0.048 and p< 0.001, respectively). When controlling for the marital and professional status, the female gender had an OR=2.26, 95% CI (1.21; 4.22) toward a high level of empathy compared to males. The causal mediation effect of the perceived lack of professional support on empathy through burnout-depersonalization was highly significant (p< 0.001) with an average of 0.0599, 95% CI (0.0238; 0.10), while the direct effect was non-significant (p=0.536) with an average of 0.0295, 95% CI (− 0.0774; 0.15).Conclusion: We highlighted the impact of the lack of professional support on healthcare workers' empathy through burnout-depersonalization in a context of a high workload, time pressure, job stress beyond previous training, and inherently limited organizational support, which are potentially modifiable factors in the mid-term.Keywords: healthcare workers, burnout experience, work engagement, mediation model, Maslach Burnout Inventory, PHQ-9

Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have been on the rise since 2016 (FBI, 2022), discouraging this group's participation in public life. Most Americans, therefore, encounter Muslims only via media representations. We investigated if two journalistic storytelling devices can kindle in white non-Muslim Americans empathy and supportive attitudes toward Muslim women who are victims of discrimination. Indeed, personalization and emotionalization of news stories increased empathy for Muslim victims among participants with high Muslim prejudice. Gender differences moderated the effect of emotionalization, with women participants reporting more empathy and willingness to help victims than men.