... of offence-related social cognitions on the behaviours exhibited during the offence. Thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the behaviours conducted in a virtual burglary and burglary-related cognitive distortions, empathy, proclivity, emotional reactivity, immersion and task...

... and female witnesses. To do this, we assessed participants’ perceptions of credibility, emotionality and empathy, as well as participants’ confidence levels, susceptibility to misinformation and memory accuracy. We predicted that differences in perceptions and judgements would occur based on the witness...

...Samantha Marie Walkden; Kirstie Turner Purpose Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia, frequently experience public stigma, which can be further enhanced if the individual has an offending history. This study aims to examine how perceiver attributes, including empathy...

... re-use rights only Rehabilitation Offenders Empathy Moral reasoning Theory of mind Executive functioning Prosociality is considered important in the study of offenders. This is because the risk of offending behaviour is believed to be lowered if a person possesses certain prosocial...

...Hung-Chu Lin; Yang Yang; Robert McFatter; Raymond W. Biggar; Rick Perkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine criminal offenders’ dispositional empathy and relate it to perceived parenting characteristics of primary caregivers (measured as care and overprotection) and inmates’ internal...

... would decrease after engagement with incarcerated serious offenders, and whether any improvement would be explained by increased empathic responding. Design/methodology/approach – An experimental field study was conducted. A repeated measures questionnaire assessed empathy and prejudice at two...

...Sandy Jung; Elizabeth Carlson The current study is an exploratory study examining the relationship between the abuse histories of 89 sexual offenders and the constructs of locus of control, sexual attitudes, general empathy, and denial. Of the 89 offenders, 14.6% were sexually abused, 13.5...