Name
Abstract | ||
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A growing body of research exploits social media behaviors to gauge psychological character- istics, though trait empathy has received little attention. Because of its intimate link to the abil- ity to relate to others, our research aims to predict participants’ levels of empathy, given their textual and friending behaviors on Facebook. Using Poisson regression, we compared the vari- ance explained in Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) scores on four constructs (em- pathic concern, personal distress, fantasy, perspective taking), by two classes of variables: 1) post content and 2) linguistic style. Our study lays the groundwork for a greater understanding of empathy’s role in facilitating interactions on social media. |
Year | Venue | Field |
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2016 | PEOPLES@COLING | Fantasy,Social psychology,Empathy,Perspective-taking,Developmental psychology,Social media,Trait,Personal distress,Psychology,Correlation,Linguistics,Interpersonal Reactivity Index |
DocType | Volume | Citations |
Conference | W16-43 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Litvak | 1 | 50 | 6.82 |
| Jahna Otterbacher | 2 | 703 | 51.92 |
| Chee Siang Ang | 3 | 281 | 30.47 |
| David Atkins | 4 | 55 | 12.28 |