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Distancing from a target person with cancer: the role of empathy-inducing instructions and family history of cancer.

The Journal of social psychology - 1 Jun 2009

Whitehead George I, Smith Stephanie H

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The authors tested the proposition that people distance themselves more from a target person with cancer when they have no family history of cancer and receive no empathy-inducing instructions. The authors also tested the proposition that men distance themselves more from a person with cancer than do women. The results confirm the prediction regarding family history and empathy, but they did not confirm the...

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PMID: 19537603
DOI: 10.3200/SOCP.149.3.387-389

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