Empathy-induced altruistic motivation.

By C. Daniel Batson. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Awe’s effects on generosity and helping (2016, background): “For instance, empathy and compassion are both theoretically and empirically prototypical positive other-oriented emotions that influence helping, caring, and generosity as they obviously arouse a positive disposition toward others’ needs (Batson, 2010; Stellar & Keltner, 2014).”
Reading Narrative Fiction Reduces Arab-Muslim Prejudice and Offers a Safe Haven From Intergroup Anxiety (2013, background): “Developing feelings of empathy for the outgroup may represent another mechanism of prejudice reduction (Batson, 2010; Batson et al., 1997).”
Empathizing With Others’ Pain Versus Empathizing With Others’ Joy: Examining the Separability of Positive and Negative Empathy and Their Relation to Different Types of Social Behaviors and Social Emotions (2015, methodology): “Although empathy (and related terms such as sympathy) has been defined in a variety of ways (see, e.g., Batson, 2010; de Waal, 2008; Wispé, 1986), here we adopt the definition advanced by Eisenberg and colleagues (e.g., Eisenberg & Fabes, 1998).”
Theories of human altruism: a systematic review (2014, background): “While egoism and altruism are potentially distinct motives, they can co-occur [19].”
Religion, spirituality, and altruism (2013, background): “Across the many psychological fields that are interested in the interplay of emotions and cognitions or reasoning, a major distinction is made between (a) prosociality based on feelings of empathy and similar other-focused moral emotions such as moral outrage (anger, contempt, and disgust), elevatio”
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “With regard to personal distress, there is widespread agreement that well regulated, other-oriented empathy should be distinguished from dysregulated, self-focused negative emotion in response to others’ suffering (e.g., Batson, 1991, 2010; Davis, 1980; Eisenberg et al., 2015).”
The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice (2015, positive): “…adoptedbyanotherperson(Stephan&Finlay,1999),together with its emotional counterpart, that is, empathy, has been shown to have beneﬁcial effects on out-group attitudes and intergroup behaviors (e.g., Batson, 2010; Galinsky, Maddux, Gilin, & White, 2008; Vescio, Sechrist, & Paolucci, 2003).”
Improving intergroup relations with extended and vicarious forms of indirect contact (2014, methodology): “There is an extensive literature showing that intergroup empathy can bring about more positive relations between members of different groups, for instance by reducing stereotyping, improving outgroup attitudes, and fostering greater prosocial behaviour towards the outgroup (Batson, 2010; Stephan & F”
Blind loyalty? When group loyalty makes us see evil or engage in it (2016, background): “Loyalty, however, imbues these collectivist prosocial motivations with principlism (Batson, 1994, 2010; Batson, Kobrynowicz, Dinnerstein, Kampf, & Wilson, 1997), or the imperative to act in the group’s interest because it is the right thing to do.”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “…of others’ distress, although the system itself presumably evolved because it increased inclusive fitness by making it more likely that children and tribe members with whom the individual shared genes would survive and reproduce (Batson, 2010; de Waal, 2008; Hamilton, 1964; MacLean, 1985).”