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Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment.
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In this paper, the authors examine relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior, and moral judgment, with a focus on motivated empathy regulation as an important process that shapes empathic and moral outcomes.Abstract:
In this review, we examine relationships between empathy, prosocial behavior, and moral judgment. We focus on recent evidence for these relationships, with a focus on motivated empathy regulation as an important process that shapes empathic and moral outcomes. In particular, we highlight tradeoffs in contexts that involve competing victims with different needs, such as in large-scale suffering situations and sacrificial moral dilemmas, as well as on effects on punishment and recursive effects of morality on empathy. Our aim is to integrate motivation frameworks in empathy regulation and social cognition with prosocial and moral judgments.read more
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Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether inducing analgesia through a placebo painkiller reduced effortful helping, and found that the level of unpleasantness to other people's pain fully mediated the effect of placebo analgesia on prosocial choices.
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Motivated empathic choices
TL;DR: A recent review as discussed by the authors highlights the importance of the motivated empathy question from a psychological and ethical perspective, and how early empathy avoidance experiments set the stage for the recent resurgence of interest in the topic.
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Do Bad People Deserve Empathy? Selective Empathy Based on Targets’ Moral Characteristics
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Motivated Down-Regulation of Emotion and Compassion Collapse Revisited
TL;DR: In this article , the authors critically reexamine a previous study comparing these two accounts published in 2011 and present new data that contest motivated down-regulation of emotion as the primary explanation for compassion collapse.
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Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive
TL;DR: This article examined how actors think others perceive their morally questionable behavior (moral meta-perception) across a diverse set of real-world moral violations, and found that morally questionable actors can accurately predict how they are perceived, how they uniquely perceived relative to the average morally questionable actor, and how they were misperceived.
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Altruism in Humans
TL;DR: The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis is applied as a guide for the development of a Pluralism of Prosocial Motives-and a More Humane Society in the 21st Century.
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Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis
TL;DR: The latest evidence from studies carried out across a wide range of species, including studies on yawn contagion, consolation, aid-giving and contagious physiological affect are discussed, and neuroscientific data on representations related to another's state is summarized.
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Empathy: a motivated account.
TL;DR: Interdisciplinary evidence highlights the motivated nature of empathy, and a motivated model holds wide-ranging implications for basic theory, models of psychiatric illness, and intervention efforts to maximize empathy.
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Why are VMPFC patients more utilitarian? A dual-process theory of moral judgment explains.
TL;DR: A dual-process theory of moral judgment is proposed that predicts that patients with emotion-related damage in the VMPFC make unusually utilitarian judgments, which is challenged in this issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences.