Child development | Love | Compassion |
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Who are the researchers for this study?
Prentice et al.
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When was the study conducted?
Dunn et al 2008
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What is singularity effect?
The effect in which individuals with a photograph and name evoke a stronger compassionate response than a group of people in need.
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What was the theory discussed in the study?
Gould’s theory of development
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Who were the participants?
32 couples at the UVA campus
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What is compassion fade?
The phenomenon of a decrease in compassion.
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What was this investigating?
The relationship between causal reasoning and a child’s belief in Santa Claus
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What were the conditions in the experiment
Appealing and unappealing gift cards
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Who is Paul Slovic?
A researcher that investigated compassion fade.
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What does the theory mentioned in the study discuss?
The level of maturity in relation to the child’s perception of reality.
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what is volunteer sampling?
a sampling technique where participants self-select to become part of a study because they volunteer
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What is statistical information?
When this type of information was given to the first group, they donated less money than the group that was given a story of one victim.
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