Men, women…who cares? A population-based study on sex differences and gender roles in empathy and moral cognition.

ABSTRACT: Research on sex differences in empathy has revealed mixed findings. Whereas experimental and neuropsychological measures show no consistent sex effect, self-report data consistently indicates greater empathy in women. However, available results mainly come from separate populations with relatively small samples, which may inflate effect sizes and hinder comparability between both empirical corpora. To elucidate the issue, we conducted two large-scale studies. First, we examined whether sex differences emerge in a large population-based sample (n = 10,802) when empathy is measured with an experimental empathy-for-pain paradigm. Moreover, we investigated the relationship between empathy and moral judgment. In the second study, a subsample (n = 334) completed a self-report empathy questionnai

SUBMITTER: Baez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478130 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature