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Nancy Eisenberg
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 510
Citations - 64172
Nancy Eisenberg is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prosocial behavior & Empathy. The author has an hindex of 118, co-authored 493 publications receiving 59267 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy Eisenberg include Lakehead University.
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Behavioral and Physiological Correlates of Children's Reactions to Others in Distress
TL;DR: For instance, this paper examined the behavioral and physiological correlates of children's reactions to others in distress and the relation of these to dispositional helpfulness, concluding that children who are able to regulate their vicariously induced emotional responsiveness are relatively likely to experience sympathy and relatively unlikely to experience personal distress.
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Personality and socialization correlates of vicarious emotional responding.
Nancy Eisenberg,Richard A. Fabes,Mark Schaller,Paul A. Miller,Gustavo Carlo,Rick Poulin,Cindy Shea,Rita Shell +7 more
TL;DR: This article examined the relation of personality and family characteristics to adults' negative vicarious emotional responses to sympathy and distress films and reported more sympathy and less personal distress and exhibited less skin conductance as well as heart rate deceleration when viewing a sympathy-evoking film.
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Shyness and Children's Emotionality, Regulation, and Coping: Contemporaneous, Longitudinal, and Across-Context Relations
TL;DR: The overall pattern of findings was partially consistent with the conclusion that parent-rated shyness reflected primarily social wariness with unfamiliar people (i.e., temperamental shyness), whereas teacher-rated Shyness tapped social inhibition due to social evaluative concerns.
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The relations of effortful control and ego control to children's resiliency and social functioning
Nancy Eisenberg,Carlos Valiente,Richard A. Fabes,Cynthia L. Smith,Mark Reiser,Stephanie A. Shepard,Sandra H. Losoya,Ivanna K. Guthrie,Bridget C. Murphy,Amanda Cumberland +9 more
TL;DR: The relations of effortful control and ego control to children's resiliency, social status, and social competence were examined concurrently and over time, and a behavioral measure of persistence was obtained.