Empathy manipulations can reliably induce perpetrator perspective-taking in experiments

Evidence

To manipulate perspective-taking, participants were instructed to imagine that they themselves were one of the Dutch before reading the scenario, imagining how they behaved as one of the Dutch, and which motives they had to do so. To reinforce this manipulation after reading the scenario, they were asked to write down two thoughts they had as a result of imagining themselves as one of the Dutch. Participants in the no perspective condition did not receive these instructions. — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1064

Categorization

• QUESTION: How the perceptive instructions produce the reversal for lower identifiers is worth tracing into the full method details and replication.
• XREF: connects to: Taking another group’s perspective activates self-concept and increases perceived self-other overlap — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1091; Empathy is a vicarious emotional state produced by perspective-taking — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1835; Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1065 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adopting the perpetrator’s perspective reverses which identifiers feel most guilty #expands (0.85) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1065
• Empathy is a vicarious emotional state produced by perspective-taking #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1835
• Imagining the perpetrator’s viewpoint raises guilt only in low identifiers #qualifies (0.80) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 1061