Empathy, Empathy Training and the Regulation of Aggression in Elementary School Children

Examining the permanence of the effect of an empathy program for the acquisition of empathy skills on gifted adolescents

“…Therefore, it can be said that the applied empathy skills psycho-training program was effective in increasing empathy skills of the students in the experimental group. This result shows a consistency with other experimental studies conducted to develop empathy skills both in Turkey (Gemici, 2012;Sortullu, 2011;Yilmaz, 2003) and abroad (Feshbach, 1984;Castillo et al, 2013). Even though these studies were not conducted with gifted students, the consistency of the results with these studies once again indicates the benefit of group work in developing empathy skills.…”

“…Furthermore, in another study by Koksal (2007: 62-69) a program was developed to increase emotional intelligence of gifted children, and in this study it was found that an emotional intelligence training program which was developed for gifted children increased their emotional intelligence levels. Feshbach (1984) prepared an empathy program with the purpose of encouraging positive social behavior by organizing aggression behavior of primary school students. Moreover, in another study Feshbach (1978) investigated the correlation between empathy and four emotion states.…”

Can Text Messages Make People Kinder?

“…Socio-emotional intervention programs can also increase empathic tendencies. For example, empathy can increase when similarity between the self and others is emphasized (Barnett, 1984;Brehm, Fletcher, & West, 1981), after role-playing another person's feelings or situation (Barak, Engle, Katzir, & Fisher, 1987;Feshbach, 1984;Feshbach & Konrad, 2001;Underwood & Moore, 1982), after observing others' misfortunes (Barnett, Howard, Melton, & Dino, 1982;Perry, 1975), and after exposure to highly empathic role models (Bryan & Walbek, 1970;Kohn, 1991;Kremer & Dietzen, 1991;Perry, 1975).…”

“…With respect to empathy specifically, most prior empathy-induction studies rely on classroom or laboratory settings (Barak, et al, 1987;Barnett, 1984;Barnett, et al, 1982;Brehm, et al, 1981;Bryan & Walbek, 1970;Feshbach, 1984;Feshbach & Konrad, 2001). Yet some innovative research has found that empathy can be taught using videos (Kremer & Dietzen, 1991;Warner, 1984), demonstrating the potential effectiveness of more remote interventions.…”

Sozial-emotionales Lernen mit FAUSTLOS

“…Beide Curricula basieren auf dem amerikanischen Programm SECOND STEP (Beland 1988a;1988b) FAUSTLOS vermittelt Empathie als ein "Set von Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten", das die Fähigkeit, die Gefühle anderer wahrzunehmen, zu verstehen und zu beantworten, einschließt. Empathie lässt sich beschreiben als die Kompetenz, den eigenen und den emotionalen Zustand eines anderen Menschen bestimmen, die Perspektive einer anderen Person übernehmen und auf eine andere Person emotional reagieren zu kön-nen (Feshbach 1984 wickeln, die ihre Fähigkeit zur Empathie vermindern. Der Empathiefähig-keit kommt eine zentrale Bedeutung in der Entwicklung prosozialen Verhaltens und interpersoneller Problemlösestra-tegien zu (Ianotti 1985).…”