You may have seen it among your own friends: a high-profile #MeToo case triggers responses that assign some or all the blame on a victim of sexual harassment, with men more likely than women to side with an accused male. New research published Sunday in the Psychology of Women Quarterly suggests it is men’s empathy for other men, rather than their lack of empathy for women, that may be more important in explaining this effect. “Men are accused of not being empathic enough — I would say they are as empathic as women, they just might have a different focus,” Renata Bongiorno, who led the research, at the University of Exeter told AFP.
