Suicidal patients evoked positive feelings such as empathy and sympathy, and negative feelings such as distancing, aggression, guilt, anxiety and fear.
He provided empirical evidence, derived from experiments, that after an initial pang of sympathy, people tend to develop negative views toward others who are suffering.
Furthermore, some researchers argue that the inherent structure of violent video games limit young people's abilities to develop perspectives of victims and does not encourage affective sympathy in children, as any negative effects of being harmed or killed in the games are minimised ignored, or even rewarded.
The popular and internationally successful 1906 outlaw epic The Story of the Kelly Gang painted Victorian police in a negative light; its sympathies lay on the side of Kelly, who was hung 26 years before the film was originally released.
Philip said that he felt sympathy for Ms. Snyder for the negative attention she had received and that he had no interest in seeing her penalized.
We've begun to get bag-snagging injuries — shoulder, neck, back — and around the house the sympathy available for them is only the negative kind.
The world's sympathy for Israel's grievances quickly grew negative.
By focussing on the authentic biology and casting it as a neurological disease, it takes away the negative stigma and elicits not only sympathy but concentrated clinical attention.
But even with the understanding that people who post negative things are reaching out from their pain or frustration, sometimes I'll read a post that doesn't create sympathy or compassion in me... it creates anger!
People with low self-esteem tend to use Facebook "counterproductively," a recent academic study found, overwhelming their online friends with negative information and failing to elicit the sympathy they are ultimately seeking.
