Altruism or psychological escape: Why does empathy promote prosocial behavior?

By E. Stocks, David A. Lishner, S. Decker. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science

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Bystander anti-racism : a review of the literature (2011, background): “Sources: (Aboud & Joong, 2008; Ashburn-Nardo et al., 2008; Howley & Pedersen, 2006; Hyers, 2007; Levine et al., 2005; Saucier et al., 2005; Stocks et al., 2009; Wellman et al., 2009; Witenberg, 2004, 2007).”
A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “…and perspective taking consistently invoke individuals’ otheroriented motivation (Batson et al., 1997; Grant & Dutton, 2012; Maner et al., 2012; Stocks et al., 2009; Tasimi & Young, 2016; Van Lange, 2008; Young et al., 2012), we did not provide a direct test of this mechanism in the current…”
Positive Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: A Neglected Link (2016, background): “In particular, in cases of empathically induced helping behavior in distressing situations, a desire to altruistically comfort the other’s need appears to be a viable motivational force to act prosocially (see Batson & Shaw, 1991; Stocks et al., 2009).”
Intellectual humility and prosocial values: Direct and mediated effects (2017, unknown): “Although many positive emotions have been associated with prosocial behavior, research has shown that empathy and gratitude may be unique in that they elicit altruism even when costly to the person acting (e.g. Bartlett & DeSteno, 2006; FeldmanHall et al., 2015; Stocks et al., 2009; Tsang, 2006).”
The Development of Empathy : How , When , and Why (2010, background): “…on distinguishing between these alternate motivations by assessing individuals helping behaviors when they are placed as witnesses to a person in distress, where an easy escape from the distressing situation is or is not possible (Batson et al. 1988; Dovidio et al. 1990; Stocks et al. 2009).”
Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation (2010, background): “This perception-action cascade is seen even when altruistic behaviors are costly to the self and when escape from the situation would be easy (Preston and de Waal, 2002; Stocks et al., 2009).”
The Moral Psychology Handbook (2010, background): “But a cleverly designed experiment by Stocks and his associates (Stocks et al., 2009) suggests that, in situations like those used in Batson’s experiments, a belief that they will continue to think about the target does not play a significant role in causing the helping behavior in high-empathy subj”