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Finger Blood Volume Responses of Counselors, Counselor Trainees, and Non‐Counselors to Stimuli from an Empathy Test
Author(s) -
Gellen Murray I.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1970.tb01419.x
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , graduate students , test (biology) , arousal , counselor education , applied psychology , clinical psychology , medical education , social psychology , higher education , pedagogy , medicine , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Measures of 4 physiological variables were obtained while 30 counselors, 30 counselor trainees, and 30 graduate science majors were evaluating a series of dramatic dialogs and slides taken from an empathy test. Significantly more vasoconstriction, indicative of arousal, was observed in the counselors and counselor trainees than in the science majors. This finding is consistent with the proposal that empathy is related to physiological responses and serves as contributing evidence for criteria in the selection, training, and evaluation of counselors.