Gender differences in empathic accuracy: Differential ability or differential motivation?

By William Ickes, P. R. Gesn, Tiffany Graham. 2000

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Gender Roles and Empathic Accuracy: The Role of Communion in Reading Minds (2009, methodology): “Although few individual difference predictors of empathic accuracy have been found, one variable that has consistently predicted empathic accuracy under certain specified conditions is the gender of the perceiver (e.g., Ickes et al. 2000b).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “Consistent with this idea, Ickes, Gesn, and Graham (2000) and Graham and Ickes (1997) demonstrated that women’s empathic accuracy advantage only holds if task performance is overtly framed as measuring empathy.”
Confirming Gender Stereotypes: A Social Role Perspective (2003, background): “Thus, confirmation of stereotypes appears to be a dynamic process (e.g., Deaux & Major, 1987; Fitzpatrick et al., 1995; Ickes, Gesn, & Graham, 2000; Smith, Noll, & Bryant, 1999) that is dependent on specific contextual factors such as emotional vulnerability.”
Making Gender Comparisons More Meaningful: A Call for More Attention to Social Context (2003, background): “Ickes, Gesn, and Graham (2000) in a meta-analysis of 15 studies uncovered an explanatory moderator: motivation to appear empathic.”
Empathy, gender, and prosocial behavior (2020, background): “Another approach (Ickes, 1993, 1997; Ickes et al. 2000), has subjects watch videos of people interacting,”
Sex Differences in Emotion (2002, background): “, 1999; Plant, Hyde, Keltner, & Devine, 2000; Shields, 1995), the inconsistent findings (Brody, 1996; Brody & Hall, 1993; Hall, 1987; Ickes et al., 2000; Manstead, 1998; Shields, 1995) suggest that any observed differences between men’s and women’s overt emotional behaviors are more the result of si”
Gender-Typed Play and Social Abilities in Boys and Girls: Are They Related? (2016, background): “Consistent with such gendered socialization of social skills, meta-analyses of studies in the West have found that girls and women are generally more empathic than are boys and men across the lifespan (Eisenberg and Fabes 1998; Ickes et al. 2000).”
KNOWLEDGE OF NONVERBAL CUES, GENDER, AND NONVERBAL DECODING ACCURACY (2004, neutral): “Order of administration of the tasks was counterbalanced.2 The WPT was administered to only 86 participants.”
Mind-Reading and Metacognition: Narcissism, not Actual Competence, Predicts Self-Estimated Ability (2004, result): “These results depart from prior work that finds effects of gender (see Ickes, Gesn, & Graham, 2000 for a discussion of ability and motivational differences in empathic accuracy) and self-monitoring (e.g., Davis & Kraus, 1997).”
Social Class, Contextualism, and Empathic Accuracy (2010, result): “As in previous research (Ickes et al., 2005), women (M = 103.”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “In this way, males may be more sensitive to contextual influences on their empathy and their empathy may be more dependent on their motivational state (Ickes et al., 2000).”
Empatía: Medidas, teorías y aplicaciones en revisión (2008, neutral): “Esta explicación ha recibido apoyo empírico procedente de otros estudios (p.e., Ickes, 2006).”