Table 1 Inter-scale correlations (Spearman’s ρ) for measures of Social Affect, Social Cognition, and Prosocial Donations.

From: Gender differences in empathy, compassion, and prosocial donations, but not theory of mind in a naturalistic social task

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1. Empathy

–

 − 0.56*

 − 0.49*

(− 0.60*)

 − 0.17*

 − 0.06

(− 0.22*)

 − 0.21*

 − 0.14

(− 0.20*)

 − 0.00

 − 0.02

(− 0.09)

 − 0.25*

 − 0.19

(− 0.28*)

 − 0.05

 − 0.07

(− 0.14)

2. Compassion

 

–

0.33*

0.35*

(0.25*)

0.03

0.08

(− 0.07)

0.13*

0.21*

(0.12)

0.10

0.03

(0.15)

0.17*

0.25*

(0.17*)

3. Prosocial donation

  

–

0.00

0.23*

(− 0.21*)

0.08

0.11

(0.09)

0.06

0.14

(− 0.03)

0.11

0.09

(0.15)

4. ToM accuracy

   

–

 − 0.11

 − 0.19

(-0.02)

0.46*

0.47*

(0.43*)

 − 0.16*

 − 0.16

(− 0.15)

5. ToM reaction time

    

–

 − 0.07

 − 0.19*

(0.04)

0.83*

0.87*

(0.79*)

6. Factual reasoning accuracy

     

–

 − 0.11

 − 0.14

(− 0.07)

7. Factual reasoning reaction time

      

–

  1. *p < 0.05, Coefficients in bold represent the entire sample. Coefficients not in bold are for women only (n = 101). Coefficients for men reported in parentheses (n = 125).
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