• DOI:10.1017/jrr.2015.6
Corpus ID: 146270695

Perspective Taking and Empathy: Does Having Similar Past Experience to Another Person Make It Easier to Take Their Perspective?

@article{Gerace2015PerspectiveTA,
  title={Perspective Taking and Empathy: Does Having Similar Past Experience to Another Person Make It Easier to Take Their Perspective?},
  author={A. Gerace and A. Day and S. Casey and P. Mohr},
  journal={Journal of Relationships Research},
  year={2015},
  volume={6}
}

• A. Gerace, A. Day, +1 author P. Mohr
• Published 2015
• Psychology
• Journal of Relationships Research

This study tested the hypothesis that it is easier to take the perspective of another person when one has similar past experience. Volunteer participants (N = 154) were asked to take the perspective of a protagonist in one of four problematic interpersonal situations and then to rate the ease with which they felt able to perspective take and the extent of their personal past experience of similar situations. Similar past experience predicted ease of perspective taking, with the relationship… Expand