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...empathy evened out and dehumanization of the defendant disappeared. Our findings suggest that “empathic defaults” are part of legal decision making and that introducing-- rather than ignoring-- multiple perspectives may balance the emotional scales.
doi.org/10.1037/emo0...

Does emotional info bias justice, or balance it? In over 900k real cases and 2 experiments, we found that people by default empathized with victims and dehumanized defendants. When BOTH victim AND defendant perspectives were shared...

ELA often connected w more affective empathy in youth, but less cognitive empathy + more distress in adults. More research is needed—esp. on different types of adversity & how we measure empathy. DM for manuscript access if needed!!
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