Gender differences, motivation, and empathic accuracy: When it pays to understand
Gender differences, motivation, and empathic accuracy: When it pays to understand
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167201276007
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
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4
通讯作者：
Hedges, SD
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作者：
Klein, KJK;Hedges, SD
两项针对大学生的研究调查了女性在移情准确性任务（推断目标人的想法和感受）中表现优于男性的条件。第一项研究表明，只有当女性在执行移情准确性任务之前被赋予一项评估她们对目标的同情感的任务时，女性的优势才能保持。第二项研究表明，以准确性为交换条件的支付提高了男性和女性的表现，并消除了男性和女性表现之间的任何差异。总之，结果表明，移情准确性表现的性别差异是动机差异的结果，而不是由于男女之间的简单能力差异。
Two studies of college students investigated the conditions under which women perform better than men on an empathic accuracy task (inferring the thoughts and feelings of a target person). The first study demonstrated that women's advantage held only when women were given a task assessing their feelings of sympathy toward the target prior to performing the empathic accuracy task. The second study demonstrated that payments in exchange for accuracy improved the performance of both men and women and wiped out any difference between men's and women's performances. Together, the results suggest that gender differences in empathic accuracy performance are the result of motivational differences and are not due to simple differences of ability between men and women.