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ArticleJournal of broadcasting & electronic media2025

Empathy, Validation, and Branding: Testing the Theory of Empathetic Suffering.

Yi Liao, Dallin R Adams, Camilla M Owens, Jakob D Jensen

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Article in Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yi LiaoDepartment of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United State.
Dallin R AdamsDepartment of Communication, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, United State.
Camilla M OwensDepartment of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United State.
Jakob D JensenDepartment of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United State.

Funding

UTAH REGIONAL CANCER CENTERP30CA042014 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KATHARINE S ULLMAN · 1986 to 2026
$72.6M
Communal Feedback as an Innovative Alternative to Skin Self-ExamDP2EB022360 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JENSEN, JAKOB DANIEL · 2015 to 2018
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA042014NIBIB NIH HHS DP2 EB022360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research shows narratives can evoke empathy, but studies on specific narrative features and cognitive mechanisms consistently eliciting empathy are needed. To address that need, the current study proposes and tests a

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character distressempathytheory of empathetic sufferingvalidation

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PMID40417184
PMCPMC12097526

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