When an unfortunate individual in a social incident is cyberbullied by the public, even empathetic people can be bystanders: The role of perception of unusual behaviors
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Highlights：
• We test if empathy would enhance empathetic responses to targets of cyberbulling.
• Empathy generally promotes defending and deters from attacking targets of bulling.
• Effects of empathy disappear if people perceive the target's behaviors as unusual.
• Even empathetic people can be bystanders when cyberbulling occurs.
摘要
•We test if empathy would enhance empathetic responses to targets of cyberbulling.•Empathy generally promotes defending and deters from attacking targets of bulling.•Effects of empathy disappear if people perceive the target's behaviors as unusual.•Even empathetic people can be bystanders when cyberbulling occurs.
论文关键词：Empathy,Defending behavior,Aggressive behavior,Bullying,Cyberbullying,Unusualness perception
论文评审过程：Received 5 June 2018, Revised 17 September 2018, Accepted 4 December 2018, Available online 5 December 2018, Version of Record 12 December 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.006
