Open AccessEmpathic Concern and Perspective Taking: Linear and Quadratic Effects of Age Across the Adult Life Span
Author(s) -
Edward J. O’Brien,
Sara Konrath,
Daniel Grühn,
Linda Hagen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbs055
Subject(s) - empathy , interpersonal reactivity index , psychology , perspective taking , perspective (graphical) , developmental psychology , cohort effect , cohort , interpersonal communication , life span , ethnic group , young adult , clinical psychology , gerontology , social psychology , medicine , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , anthropology
We investigated linear and quadratic effects of age on self-reported empathy in three large cross-sectional samples of American adults aged 18-90 years.
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