Increasing Empathy through Participation in Structured Groups: Some Attributional Evidence
研究评估了短期共情技能培训小组对参与者归因的影响，发现训练后的人反而更低估情境因素对行为的作用，尤其在观察突出人物时，表明早期培训可能暂时削弱共情取向。
Increases in empathy produced by participation in a short-term empathy skills training group were assessed by contrasting trained and untrained individuals' attributions about salient and nonsalient stimulus persons. Although previous evidence suggests that empathy limits the observer's tendency to over-attribute behavior to personal rather than situational causes, trained subjects underestimated the impact of situational determinants on behavior, especially when observing salient actors. These findings suggest that the early stages of empathy training in structured groups may be characterized by losses in empathic orientation, perhaps as a result of increases in listening skills.