Results 21 to 30 of about 12,402 (240)
Good reasons for bad behavior: a randomized controlled experiment on the impact of narrative reading and writing on empathic concern, perspective-taking, and attitude [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundEmpathic concern and perspective-taking may contribute to avoiding stigmatization of adverse health behavior. Narrative writing has been shown to be effective in promoting perspective-taking and empathy.
Martina Bientzle +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Turning off the empathy switch: Lower empathic concern for the victim leads to utilitarian choices of action. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Empathy enables people to vicariously experience the other's pain. At the same time, the focus of empathy can be narrow and reserved for a limited number of people.
Reina Takamatsu
doaj +2 more sources
Adversity, emotion recognition, and empathic concern in high-risk youth. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Little is known about how emotion recognition and empathy jointly operate in youth growing up in contexts defined by persistent adversity. We investigated whether adversity exposure in two groups of youth was associated with reduced empathy and whether ...
Jodi A Quas +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectivesEmpathy is fundamental to social cognition, driving prosocial behaviour and mental health but associations with aging and other socio-demographic characteristics are unclear.
Andrew Sommerlad +4 more
doaj +1 more source
The Role of Guilt and Empathy on Prosocial Behavior
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Research on the effects of guilt on interpersonal relationships has shown that guilt frequently motivates prosocial behavior in dyadic social situations. When multiple persons are involved, however, this emotion can be disadvantageous for other people in
Costanza Scaffidi Abbate +5 more
doaj +1 more source
The origins of empathic concern [PDF]
Motivation and Emotion, 1990 Recent developments in research cast doubt on early conceptions of young children as primarily egocentric and uncaring of others' needs. Studies reviewed indicate a broad range of social competencies children bring to their interpersonal relationships.
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn +1 more
openaire +1 more source
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Empathy is an emotional response that may facilitate prosocial behavior and inhibit aggression by increasing empathic concern for others. But the vicarious experience of other’s feelings may also turn into personal distress when the person has poor ...
Sonsoles Valdivia-Salas +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Acta Psychologica, 2022 Although earlier research had demonstrated significant links between attachment and self-concept clarity; attachment and empathy; and self-concept clarity and empathy respectively, there had been no studies examining these associations in conjunction ...
Ayşe I. Kural, Monika Kovács
doaj +1 more source
Predicting Empathy From Resting State Brain Connectivity: A Multivariate Approach
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2020 Recent task fMRI studies suggest that individual differences in trait empathy and empathic concern are mediated by patterns of connectivity between self-other resonance and top-down control networks that are stable across task demands.
Leonardo Christov-Moore +13 more
doaj +1 more source
Low levels of empathic concern predict utilitarian moral judgment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Classic moral dilemmas are often defined by the conflict between a putatively rational response to maximize aggregate welfare (i.e., the utilitarian judgment) and an emotional aversion to harm (i.e., the non ...
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Liane Young
doaj +1 more source