2023
White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’
Johnson J, Lecci L, Dovidio J. White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’. British Journal Of Social Psychology 2023, 63: 936-955. PMID: 38131304, DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12712.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPolice violenceBlack victimsBlame attributionsCitizenship educationCriminal stereotypesWhite policemenMotivated reasoning processesRacial stereotypingViolencePejorative stereotypesBlack AmericansVictimsWhite observersBlack menVictim stereotypicalityBlack womenGreater blameStereotypesPractical implicationsBlack stereotypesStereotypical victimMTurk participantsCrimeEmpathy deficitsEmpathy
2019
Black Intragroup Empathic Responding to Police Interracial Violence: Effects of Victim Stereotypicality and Blacks’ Racial Identification
Johnson J, Lecci L, Dovidio J. Black Intragroup Empathic Responding to Police Interracial Violence: Effects of Victim Stereotypicality and Blacks’ Racial Identification. Social Psychological And Personality Science 2019, 11: 579-587. DOI: 10.1177/1948550619859316.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVictim stereotypicalityRacial identificationPolice violenceInterracial violenceBlack victimsAmazon Mechanical TurkEmpathic respondingPsychological processesIndividual differencesPsychological dynamicsBlack observersUnarmed Black menBlack participantsLess empathyBlack male victimsStudy 1Study 2MTurk participantsMechanical TurkEmpathyRacial identityPresent researchPublic outrageMale victimsStereotypicality
2017
Altruism and Prosocial Behavior
Dovidio J, Halabi S. Altruism and Prosocial Behavior. 2017, 1-3. DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873.est0415.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Prosocial Behavior and Empathy
Dovidio J, Banfield J. Prosocial Behavior and Empathy. 2015, 216-220. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.24024-5.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
Psychosocial predictors of attitudes toward physician empathy in clinical encounters among 4732 1st year medical students: A report from the CHANGES study
van Ryn M, Hardeman R, Phelan S, Burke S, Przedworski J, Allen M, Burgess D, Ridgeway J, White R, Dovidio J. Psychosocial predictors of attitudes toward physician empathy in clinical encounters among 4732 1st year medical students: A report from the CHANGES study. Patient Education And Counseling 2014, 96: 367-375. PMID: 25065328, PMCID: PMC4195739, DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.06.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedical students' attitudesMedical schoolsStudents' attitudesMedical studentsFirst-year medical students' attitudesPhysician empathyMedical school curriculumFirst-year studentsUS medical schoolsYear medical studentsEmpathic careSchool curriculumStudent factorsEffective curriculumYear studentsClinical encountersDispositional empathyCurriculumStudentsDispositional characteristicsPsychosocial predictorsSchoolsEmpathyOnline questionnaireIndividual predictors
2010
Empathy and intergroup relations.
Dovidio J, Johnson J, Gaertner S, Pearson A, Saguy T, Ashburn-Nardo L. Empathy and intergroup relations. 2010, 393-408. DOI: 10.1037/12061-020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchIntergroup relationsIntergroup attitudesRole of empathyPotential of interventionsIntergroup empathyIntergroup biasOutgroup membersEmpirical attentionDirect instructionEmpathyParticipants' attitudesAttitudesComplementary perspectivesArousalOutgroupInstructionRelationInterventionDirect impactAttentionBiasResearchPerspectiveManipulationBehavior
2001
Adulthood: Prosocial Behavior and Empathy
Dovidio J. Adulthood: Prosocial Behavior and Empathy. 2001, 159-162. DOI: 10.1016/b0-08-043076-7/01740-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEmpathic arousalProsocial behaviorAffective processesEmpathic concernProsocial actionsEmpathic responsesPsychophysiological indicesEmotional responsesDispositional characteristicsUnpleasant stateNonverbal expressionsAltruistic motivationEmpathyPerson's welfareArousalPerson's needsPrimary goalEmotionsSadnessSpontaneous formDistressMotivationEvolutionary benefitsBehaviorVolunteering