This paper summarizes the author's research on the role of empathy in personality development. (Author)

Psychologists and linguists often suggest that empathy or role-taking ability is important in the communication process because it enables a speaker to consider in advance the informational demands of his audience. Despite the vintage of the empathy-effective communication hypothesis, it has never been directly tested. In this study, empathy was…

Study supports hypothesis that poorly socialized but apparently nondelinquent students were, as a group, relatively empathic and that this empathic disposition compensated for their poor socialization. (Authors/MB)

This paper reviewed several studies supporting the idea that empathy is an important aspect of interpersonal behavior and moral conduct and providing further evidence for the validity of an empathy scale. Minres factor analyses were performed to determine the underlying structure of the empathy scale and its relationship to the California…

Research supported by Public Health Service Fellowship 1-F1-MH-30, 101-01A1 (MTLH), and based on a PhD dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 1967)

This paper deals with two specific issues: the explanation of moral conduct and the structure of moral character. The purpose of the paper is to describe a new psychological perspective on moral conduct, and to discuss some empirical findings which follow from this perspective. Morality is regarded here as a natural phenomenon which considers…

This paper presents: (1) a definition of values; (2) a measure of moral values which seems to have adequate conceptual and psychometric properties; and (3) evidence concerning the personological correlates of mature moral judgment. Values are defined as the standards used in moral evaluations and the criteria for choosing rules of conduct. Using a…