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SUMMARY:Affective empathy and the feeling of sympathy in 5-year-olds - Dr 
 Marc de Rosnay (School of Psychology\, University of Sydney)
DTSTART:20121010T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Emotion elicitation has been used for over 30 years to investi
 gate children's affective responses to other people's distress but the mea
 ning of children's responses to such stimuli remains unclear. Two expressi
 ons\, sadness and worry-concern\, have frequently been taken as evidence o
 f 'online' affective empathy but the relationship between these expression
 s has not been systematically investigated\, and both could represent\, un
 der certain conditions\, the child's personal distress rather than his/her
 \naffective empathy. In this talk we address the nature of 5-year-old¹s a
 ffective responding to a plausibly empathy-inducing event\, and the meanin
 g of that behaviour in terms of its time dependent relation to\nunfolding 
 events\, its relation to physiological indices of empathy and emotion mana
 gement\, and its relation to other indices of children¹s empathic underst
 anding and social competence during children¹s\nfirst year of school. Tog
 ether\, these data help to clarify the nature of affective empathy in chil
 dhood\, and its likely relation to the feeling of sympathy for others.
LOCATION:Room 606\, Centre for Family Research
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