appropriateness of a proposed sentence. Empathy and gender have been tested by numerous researchers looking to find correlations between amount and type of empathy (empathetic concern and perspective-taking) and gender (male v. female). Researchers, David Mellor, Sheryn Wei Ting Fung and Morul Hidayah binti Mamat @ Muhammad tested empathy and gender in a collectivist culture (2012). They believed that women would be more likely to feel higher levels of empathy; including perspective-taking and empathetic concern, forgiveness, and lower levels of avoidance in comparison to men. Their results showed that women (in this collectivist culture) did experience higher levels of empathy in comparison to men. But they did not find that men
