The crystal globe: emotional empathy and the transformation of self.
Consciousness and Cognition September 1, 2012 Christopher T Burris, John K Rempel
To test whether emotional empathy is linked to altered perceptions of self in relation to other and/or context, participants read one of two tragic news stories and then completed a self-report empathy measure, as well as an abridged version of Hood's (1975) Mysticism scale either before or after the article. Exposure to a needy other in the story tended to result in greater self-reported...