Empathic Concern Is Part of a More General Communal Emotion [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs).
Jänis Zickfeld +2 more
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Impact of Empathic Concern on Prosocial Behavior in Gain and Loss Contexts: Evidence from Event-Related Potential [PDF]
Brain SciencesThis study employs event-related potential (ERP) to examine the impact of empathic concern on prosocial decision-making with costs in both gain and loss contexts.
Yi-Ping Zhong, Zhong Yiping
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The Altruism Prioritization Engine: How Empathic Concern Shapes Children’s Inequity Aversion in the Ultimatum Game [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)Children are not only concerned about fairness but also care for others. This study examined how experimentally induced empathic concern influences children’s responses to inequity, particularly when fairness considerations may conflict with empathy ...
Weiwei Wang
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Allostatic load in children: The cost of empathic concern. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Early-life adversity affects long-term health outcomes but there is considerable interindividual variability in susceptibility to environmental influences. We proposed that positive psychological characteristics that reflect engagement with context, such as being concerned about people or performance on tasks (i.e., empathic concern), could moderate ...
Phua DY +7 more
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Cultural differences in social support seeking: The mediating role of empathic concern. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Prior research has found that East Asians are less willing than Westerners to seek social support in times of need. What factors account for this cultural difference?
Shaofeng Zheng +6 more
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Altruistic preferences of pre-service teachers: The mediating role of empathic concern and the moderating role of self-control [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Empathy and altruistic behavior are more crucial abilities for pre-service teachers to possess when compared with other study fields. The relationship between empathy and altruistic behavior in Chinese pre-service teachers and their underlying mechanisms,
Maohao Li +5 more
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The Role of Empathic Concern and Gender on Interspecific Contagious Yawning in Humans [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Interspecific contagious yawning (CY), whereby yawns from one species trigger yawning in different species, has now been reported across various taxa. This response to human yawning appears common among animals in captivity and has been interpreted as an
Andrew C. Gallup, Sabina M. Wozny
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Role of Workplace Spirituality, Empathic Concern and Organizational Politics in Employee Wellbeing: A Study on Police Personnel [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Employee wellbeing as a central aspect of organizational growth has been widely regarded and accepted. Therefore, a considerable growth in the number of researches focusing on employee wellbeing has been comprehended in recent years.
Shreshtha Yadav +6 more
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Infants’ empathic concern responses moderate the association between maternal and child depressive symptoms [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAlthough empathic concern abilities typically support adaptive social-emotional functioning, excessive empathic concern may confer risk for emotional difficulties and psychopathology.
Avigail Gordon-Hacker +5 more
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The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Empathic Concern on Mental Health and Behavioral Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Excessive Adaptation [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study examines the complex effects of empathic concern on mental health and behavioral manifestations and the potential indirect paths through excessive adaptation. A cross-sectional design with 1355 participants was employed.
Rui Wang +5 more
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