Gender Differences, Motivation, and Empathic Accuracy: When it Pays to Understand

By K. K. Klein, Sara D. Hodges. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Social Perspective Taking Process: What Motivates Individuals to Take Another's Perspective? (2012, background): “Teasing apart the extent to which these differences are a consequence of developmental stage, differences in SPT aptitude, or some other reason – perhaps gender differences in SPT motivation (see Klein & Hodges, 2001) – would be fruitful to investigate.”
Attention to behavioral events during interaction: two actor-observer gaps and three attempts to close them. (2001, background): “Apparently, participants with empathy instructions tried to infer their partners experiences by attending to their observable actions (Davis et al,, 1996; Klein & Hodges, 1999).”
KNOWLEDGE OF NONVERBAL CUES, GENDER, AND NONVERBAL DECODING ACCURACY (2004, unknown): “To date, research is inconclusive on whether motivation plays a role in decoding nonverbal cues (Ambady, Bernieri, & Richeson, 2000; Bernieri, 1988; Klein & Hodges, 2001).”
Using Theory of Mind to represent and take part in social interactions: Comparing individuals with high-functioning autism and typically developing controls (2010, background): “Yet, even though people attempt to infer the thoughts and feelings of another person, their accuracy is far from perfect (eg, Ickes, 1993 ; Klein & Hedges, 2001 ).”
Gender Roles and Empathic Accuracy: The Role of Communion in Reading Minds (2009, methodology): “…which includes subscales for empathic concern, perspective-taking, personal distress, and fantasy—have also been generally unrelated to empathic accuracy in previous research, or related in unexpected or unreliable ways (cf. Ickes et al. 1990b; Klein and Hodges 2001; Myers and Hodges in press).”
Gender and emotion in context. (2008, background): “Evidence is also accumulating that performance on nonverbal decoding tasks is susceptible to motivational influences, which may have implications for the size of the obtained gender differences (Klein & Hodges, 2001).”
Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience (2006, background): “These results indicate that the emotion-sharing component may be subject to personal experience, and/or that emotion regulation and associated caring is prepared differently in men and women (but see also [93]).”
Revisiting gender differences: What we know and what lies ahead☆ (2015, background): “In the domain of empathy, which clearly taps sensitivity to others' perspective, research finds that females are more empathetic than are males and more accurate in inferring others' feelings (Klein & Hodges, 2001).”
Theory of Mind and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Childhood (2011, background): “Even in normal people, accuracy is far from perfect (104).”
Regulating the costs of empathy: the price of being human (2001, background): “Klein and Hodges (2001) tried an equal opportunity motivator – money.”
Making Gender Comparisons More Meaningful: A Call for More Attention to Social Context (2003, background): “, Roth, S. H., Russo, N. F., & Wyatt, G. E. (1990). Psychological responses after abortion.”
Is Facebook Linked to Selfishness? Investigating the Relationships among Social Media Use, Empathy, and Narcissism (2014, background): “There are clear patterns of higher narcissism scores for males [34], however current research is mixed regarding sex and empathic levels [35], Thus, all of the following research questions were investigated separately for male and female participants.”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “K. Klein and Hodges (2001) further demonstrated that gender effects in an empathic accuracy task were eliminated when participants were paid for their performance.”
Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind (2008, background): “Klein and Hodges (2001) show that the higher female performance on an empathy task disappears when the participants are given a motivational incentive, in the form of money.”