🚨New preprint! osf.io/preprints/os... Adults evaluate consider empathizers to be warm, likable, & respected, but not when the target of their empathy is morally reprehensible. We asked whether 4-7 year olds held similar beliefs. [1/4]

Children, overall, more positively evaluated empathizers than less empathic others, except when the counter-empathizer helped the target and the empathizer did not. Though older children weighed these cues more closely than younger children. [2/4]