Virtual empathy: Positive and negative impacts of going online upon empathy in young adults
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Highlights：
• We tested if going online displaces face-to-face time and negatively impacts empathy.
• Internet usage, face-to-face time, and empathy were measured in 1390 young adults.
• Going online had little impact upon empathy and improved face-to-face time.
• Video gaming reduced empathy in both sexes but did not reduce face-to-face time.
• Virtual empathy was positively correlated with, but lower than, real-world empathy.
摘要
•We tested if going online displaces face-to-face time and negatively impacts empathy.•Internet usage, face-to-face time, and empathy were measured in 1390 young adults.•Going online had little impact upon empathy and improved face-to-face time.•Video gaming reduced empathy in both sexes but did not reduce face-to-face time.•Virtual empathy was positively correlated with, but lower than, real-world empathy.
论文关键词：Behavior,Virtual empathy,Internet,Personality,Real-world empathy
论文评审过程：Available online 10 June 2015, Version of Record 10 June 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.026
