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An additional antecedent of empathic concern: valuing the welfare of the person in need.
C. Daniel Batson,Jakob Håkansson Eklund,Valerie L. Chermok,Jennifer L. Hoyt,Biaggio G. Ortiz +4 more
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Manipulated valuing increased measured perspective taking and, in part as a result, increased empathic concern, which, in turn, increased helping behavior.Abstract:
Two experiments examined the role of valuing the welfare of a person in need as an antecedent of empathic concern. Specifically, these experiments explored the relation of such valuing to a well-known antecedent--perspective taking. In Experiment 1, both perspective taking and valuing were manipulated, and each independently increased empathic concern, which, in turn, increased helping behavior. In Experiment 2, only valuing was manipulated. Manipulated valuing increased measured perspective taking and, in part as a result, increased empathic concern, which, in turn, increased helping. Valuing appears to be an important, largely overlooked, situational antecedent of feeling empathy for a person in need.read more
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The Neural Basis of Empathy
Boris C. Bernhardt,Tania Singer +1 more
TL;DR: Empathy-related insular and cingulate activity may reflect domain-general computations representing and predicting feeling states in self and others, likely guiding adaptive homeostatic responses and goal-directed behavior in dynamic social contexts.
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Empathy: A Review of the Concept:
TL;DR: This article reviewed and critically appraised a range of definitions of empathy and, through considered analysis, developed a new conceptualisation of empathy, which is more consistent and complete than the inconsistent definition of empathy.
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Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping
TL;DR: It is concluded that empathy-related insula activation can motivate costly helping, whereas an antagonistic signal in nucleus accumbens reduces the propensity to help.
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I feel how you feel but not always: The empathic brain and its modulation
Grit Hein,Tania Singer +1 more
TL;DR: The ability to share the other's feelings, known as empathy, has recently become the focus of social neuroscience studies as discussed by the authors, with converging evidence that empathy with, for example, the pain of another person, activates part of the neural pain network of the empathizer.
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Empathy-Related Responding: Associations with Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, and Intergroup Relations
TL;DR: There is evidence that empathy and/or sympathy are important correlates of, and likely contributors to, other-oriented prosocial behavior, the inhibition of aggression and antisocial Behavior, and the quality of intergroup relationships.
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