Baby don't cry : measuring the empathetic response towards infant cries in a Singaporean nonparent context

• Main Author: Ng, Xinyao
• Other Authors: Gianluca Esposito
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138138
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Females and feminine gender roles are considered to be more empathetic according to societal stereotypes and experimental studies. Therefore, they are expected to respond more empathetically in difficult situations, such as when one hears an infant crying. Crying, which serves as the primary mean...