Empathic concern: Distinguishing between tenderness and sympathy [PDF]
Motivation and Emotion, 2012 The present research proposes that empathic concern, as assessed by six items of the ERQ, consists of two separate emotions, i.e., tenderness and sympathy. To test this assumption, nine studies were conducted among, in total, 1,273 participants. In these studies participants were presented with a hypothetical scenario of someone in need, after which ...
Abraham Pieter Buunk, D P H Barelds
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Empathic concern and personal distress depend on situational but not dispositional factors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Empathic concern and personal distress are empathic responses that may result when observing someone in discomfort. Even though these empathic responses have received much attention in past research, it is still unclear which conditions contribute to ...
Sarah Fabi +2 more
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Socioeconomic Status Moderates Age Differences in Empathic Concern. [PDF]
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 2021 Abstract Objectives Older age has been found to relate to a higher level of empathic concern and prosocial tendencies in many studies, but there are also studies that found contradictory results.
Li T, Siu PM.
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Implicit intervention approach for empathy: exploring the combined effects of empathic concern and visual perspective-taking [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryInterest in fostering empathy has expanded rapidly recently, with increasing recognition of its role in emotional wellbeing and positive social outcomes.
Taesun Kim, HeungSik Yoon, Sang Hee Kim
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Empathic concern for children and the gender-donations gap. [PDF]
J Behav Exp Econ, 2019 This study uses a dictator game with a charitable organization as the donation recipient to test whether empathic concern explains persistent gender differences in charitable giving. We first explore whether we can evoke empathic concern by varying the content of a real-world charitable appeal video that highlights children's stories of struggle with ...
van Rijn J, Quiñones EJ, Barham BL.
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A Brief Acting Experience Fosters Empathic Concern
Psychological Topics, 2022 Acting is closely related to theory of mind and empathy, which are fundamental abilities to maintain interpersonal relationships and facilitate cooperation among people.
Keiko Ishii, Tomomi Kanda
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The influence of empathic concern on prosocial behavior in children. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 This research explored the influence of empathic distress on prosocial behavior in a resource allocation task with children. Children were randomly assigned to one of two conditions before engaging in a sticker sharing task; watching either a video of a girl upset that her dog had gone missing (emotion induction condition), or a video of the same girl ...
Williams A, O'Driscoll K, Moore C.
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The Bright Side of Abstraction: Abstractness Promoted More Empathic Concern, a More Positive Emotional Climate, and More Humanity-Esteem After the Paris Terrorist Attacks in 2015 [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 AntecedentsPrevious research on citizens’ reactions after terrorist events has shown that positive reactions can also emerge alongside pain and horror. Positive emotions have been widely associated with an abstract style of thinking.
Itziar Fernández +5 more
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The Dark Triad, Moral Disengagement, and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Moderating Roles of Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Past research about social entrepreneurial intention has centered on the impact of bright personalities; however, dark personalities such as the dark triad are also considered to have advantages.
Wenqing Wu +4 more
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Empathic concern drives costly altruism.
Neuroimage, 2015 Why do we self-sacrifice to help others in distress? Two competing theories have emerged, one suggesting that prosocial behavior is primarily motivated by feelings of empathic other-oriented concern, the other that we help mainly because we are egoistically focused on reducing our own discomfort. Here we explore the relationship between costly altruism
FeldmanHall O +3 more
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