48 college students underwent either an experiential, a didactic or a didactic-experiential training program for empathy, or no training. The three training programs were equally more effective than no training. Subjects lower in empathy before training were significantly more affected by the didactic program than were subjects higher on empathy before training. Subjects high and low in pretraining were not differentially affected by the experiential and didactic-experiential programs.
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