Empathy was studied by giving Feshbach and Roe's Affective Situation Test for Empathy for 10 orphaned children and 10 controls, aged 4 to 5 yr. old. No significant differences between groups were found on empathy, egocentricity, longing for parents, rejection and denial, moral indignation, of constructive solutions.
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