The effect of being responsible for reducing another's pain on subjects' response and arousal.

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Randomly assigned 60 male undergraduates in a 2 * 2 design to conditions which varied the intensity of apparent-shock delivery (high vs low) and whether or not S was responsible for another person. Ss' task in the responsible condition was to make a response that shortened the duration of a shock delivered to a model. High shock vs low shock referred to the level of apparent shock delivered to the model. Ss' reaction time was faster when they had responsibility and when apparent shock was greater. Skin conductance data indicated that Ss were vicariously aroused by high levels of apparent shock. There was no evidence of vicarious conditioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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