A Gendered Light on Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, and Forgiveness

16 - A Gendered Light on Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, and Forgiveness

from Section 3 - Cognitive and Social Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2020

Rachel Karniol and

Sabina Čehajić-Clancy

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Fanny M. Cheung and

Diane F. Halpern

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Fanny M. Cheung: Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Diane F. Halpern: Affiliation:
Claremont McKenna College, California

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We discuss the role of gender in the empathic processes involved in prosocial behavior and the resolution of interpersonal and intergroup conflict. After defining empathy and addressing several theoretical issues, we discuss Gilligan's Ethic of Care, assessments of empathy and their relation to prosocial behavior, and gender and forgiveness in children's and adults' interpersonal relations. Finally, we discuss empathy in the resolution of intergroup and social conflicts, highlighting women's role conflict resolution.We conclude that girls and females evidence more empathy across a wide variety of measures, including behavioral measures, and that gender differences in empathic processes have a major impact on how women and men resolve moral dilemmas, how they behave in prosocial contexts, and how they react to and resolve interpersonal and intergroup conflict.

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gender empathy prosocial behavior forgiveness interpersonal & intergroup conflict

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women , pp. 221 - 243

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108561716 [Opens in a new window]

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