Differential referral to significant others as a function of interpersonal effectiveness

Pierce, Richard M.; Zarle, Thomas H.

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“…If flexible thinking provides a foundation for empathic understanding, interventions oriented toward enhancing alternative social perspectives might prove useful. Interestingly, Pierce and Zarle (1972) reported that normal individuals who spontaneously referred more frequently to the thoughts and feelings of others during self-exploration were more interpersonally effective and had higher empathy scores. Hence, a goal of psychotherapeutic treatment could be to increase both the frequency and accuracy of the brain-injured patient’s reference to others.…”

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Higher cognition and social behavior: Changes in cognitive flexibility and empathy after cerebral lesions.

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Eslinger²

1989

Neuropsychology

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~ examined the extent to which one aspect of interpersonal behavior, i. e., empathy, may be related to compromises in cognitive flexibility following brain injury. Fifty persons with cerebral lesions were administered standardized measures of cognitive flexibility (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and Alternate Uses Test) and empathy (Hogan's Empathy Measure). Empathy scores were compared with the reports of significant others and a normal comparison group. There was no difference between self-reported empathy scores and those of significant others. Brain-injured subjects obtained significantly lower empathy scores than the comparison group. Significant co"elations were found between cognitive flexibility and empathy. These interrelationships may be considered from three perspectives: (1) that flexibility is a prerequisite skill for empathy; (2) that the two variables share common neural and/or cognitive processes; and (3) that empathic change after brain injury occurs as an emotional reaction to acquired disabilities, including inflexibility.

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Higher cognition and social behavior: Changes in cognitive flexibility and empathy after cerebral lesions.

Grattan

Eslinger²

1989

Neuropsychology

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The effectiveness of the psychodramatic double method, the reflection method, and lecturing in the training of empathy

Kipper

Ben-Ely

1979

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Studied the effectiveness of the psychodramatic Double method, the Reflection method, and the Lecture method in improving empathic ability. Sixty‐four high school sophomores were assigned randomly to four groups of 16 Ss, 8 males and 8 females, each. Three groups received one of the three training methods and the fourth served as a no‐training control. The Ss' level of empathy, before and after the training, was measured by a modified version of the Accurate Empathic Scale. The results showed that all three training methods produced significant improvements compared with the control group. The effect of the Double method was significantly greater than that of the other two methods. The Reflection method ranked second, yet was not significantly better than the Lecture method. Females scored higher than males both before and after the training, but there was no significant sex and training method interaction effect.

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Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy

2021

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Using Conversation Analytic (CA) methods, the present study attempts to analyze the various functions of face-based therapist empathy, and how they are sequentially realized in different psychotherapeutic settings. Four types of face-based therapeutic functions are discussed; more specifically, it is illustrated how therapist empathy may serve to maintain, enhance, threaten or even save the client’s face. The findings gained could contribute to a better understanding of the face-based therapeutic functions of empathy; also, the study may inspire researchers to further investigate other functions of therapist empathy in psychotherapy.

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Differential referral to significant others as a function of interpersonal effectiveness

Cited by 4 publications

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Higher cognition and social behavior: Changes in cognitive flexibility and empathy after cerebral lesions.

Higher cognition and social behavior: Changes in cognitive flexibility and empathy after cerebral lesions.

The effectiveness of the psychodramatic double method, the reflection method, and lecturing in the training of empathy

Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy

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