Empathy as a buffer: How empathy moderates the emotional effects on Preschoolers' sharing.

British Journal of Psychology
Rui Guo, Zhen Wu

Abstract

This study experimentally investigated how empathy moderated the influence of external emotional stimuli on preschoolers' subsequent sharing behaviour. Children aged 4-6 (N = 218) were randomly presented with one of the video clips that elicited sad, happy, or neutral emotion, and were then asked to play a dictator game with puppet partners. Results revealed that compared to the neutral condition, children with higher empathy increased sharing after induced happiness but did not change sharing after induced sadness; by contrast, children with lower empathy decreased sharing after induced sadness. It appears that empathy may enhance the positive effect of happiness while reducing the negative effect of sadness on sharing behaviour. These findings provide experimental evidence in early childhood to support approaches that emphasize the role of immediate emotions in moral decision-making; critically, such emotional effects vary with individual differences in dispositional empathy.

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