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    Helping behaviors during disaster reporting stages: a measure of innate and conditioned differences in empathy and compassion generation

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    Abstract
    The frequency of significant disasters has increased, worldwide; yet, donations have not steadily increased to provide sufficient disaster relief for those affected by the events. This study investigates how two disaster news reporting stages (Stage 1 and 2) with different newswriting formats (hard and soft news stories) can affect millennials' generation of empathy, compassion, and helping behaviors. Innate tendencies (in the form of emotional contagion and gender differences) and conditioned responses (through internalization of the principle of care) were also considered as moderating variables ...
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    Author(s)
    Thompson, Jena J.

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    Anderson, Ashley

    Date Issued
    2015
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    born digital; masters theses
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