Helping Behavior, Dispositional Empathic Concern, and the Principle of Care

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The Psychology of Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims and Beyond (2015, background): “Behavioral paradigms have found that self-ratings of empathy correlate positively with charitable giving (Piferi et al., 2006; Wilhelm & Bekkers, 2010).”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “Many studies find that dispositional empathy (measured with items like “I am a soft-hearted person”) is positively related to charitable giving (Bekkers, 2006b; Bennett, 2003; Davis, 1983; Piferi, Jobe, & Jones, 2006; Wilhelm & Bekkers, 2010).”
Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “The change in the Likert-type scale points in EC and PT between the late 1970s and 2009 is admittedly minor (i.e., about one third of a scale point, when combining the two subscales) and still leaves today’s college student around the midpoint in these traits.”
Gender differences in charitable giving (2011, methodology): “We also find support for (Wilhelm & Bekkers, 2010) finding of the relationship between empathic concern, principle of care, and helping behavior.”
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “The other-oriented moral emotion of compassion is the mechanism through which empathic concern motivates individuals to take action to assist others or alleviate harm (e.g., Batson, Fultz, and Schoenrade 1987; Wilhelm and Bekkers 2010).”