Alison Jane Martingano

Jan 17, 2024 | news.uwgb.edu | Alison Jane Martingano

By Alison Jane MartinganoI grew up in Warrington, an ex-industrial town in the UK where most students left high school at 16. After high school, I attended a local college where I took my first psychology class with Barbra, or “Babs” as we affectionately called her. Babs was keenly aware of the challenges her students faced and consistently rose to meet them. It was under Babs’ careful tutelage that my passion for psychology ignited.

Dec 28, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Sara Konrath |Alison Jane Martingano |Mark Davis |Fritz Breithaupt

Types of empathy such as concern for others (a form of emotional empathy) and perspective taking (PT; a form of cognitive empathy) have consistently been linked to outcomes such as helping, volunteering (e.g., Ding & Lu, 2016; Yin & Wang, 2023), and more satisfactory social relationships (Davis, 2017). Thus, the finding that dispositional levels of empathic concern (EC) and PT declined among U.S. undergraduates from 1979 to 2009 (Konrath et al., 2011) was noteworthy.