Understanding the mechanisms of empathic exclusion in elderly abuse by human service professionals.

为什么一些人类服务专业人员虐待他们的客户-本研究侧重于减少对老年人的同理心，并检查了“共情排斥”的机制。以往的研究表明，去人性化研究为理解老年人虐待提供了有效的框架。假设护理环境的某些特征会引起老年人的非人性化，降低老年人的共情能力，并进行实验检验。结果支持了在护理环境中暴露身体会降低老年人人性的假设。

Why some human service professionals abuse their clients- This research focused on decreasing empathy for elderly, and examined the mechanisms of “empathic exclusion”. Previous studies suggested that dehumanization research offered effective framework to understand elderly abuse. On the hypothesis that some characteristics of care settings elicit dehumanization of elderly person and decrease empathy, the experimental examination was conducted. The results supported the hypothesis that revealing flesh in care settings reduced humanness of elderly person.