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SUBMITTER: Martinez AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495648 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martinez Andres G AG Stuewig Jeffrey J Tangney June P JP
Personality & social psychology bulletin 20141016 12
We describe and appraise a theoretical model in which individual differences in perspective-taking eventuate in crime reduction. Specifically, it is hypothesized that perspective-taking propensities influence the tendency to feel empathic-concern, thereby heightening proneness for guilt, which ultimately inhibits criminal behavior (perspective-taking → empathic-concern → guilt-proneness → crime desistance). Data from two sources were analyzed: (a) a cross-sectional college sample and (b) a longi ...[more]