Empathy, Attitudes, and Action: Can Feeling for a Member of a Stigmatized Group Motivate One to Help the Group?

By C. Daniel Batson, Jo-Yu Chang, R. Orr, Jennifer Rowland. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Compassion for climate change victims and support for mitigation policy (2016, methodology): “Second, while we employed a common method for inducing compassion (Batson et al., 2002), it is possible that the difference we found between the high-compassion and low-compassion conditions might also be explained by differential attention across conditions, with the high-compassion manipulation pr”
• Advances in Intergroup Contact (2012, background): “Batson et al. (1997) hypothesized that the positive effects of empathy will generalize from a single outgroup member to the outgroup as a whole if the person’s outgroup membership is a salient component of their plight.”
• EMPATHY AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS (2010, background): “attitudes, which then produce more positive intergroup interaction (Batson, Chapter 1, this volume; also Batson et al., 2002 ).”
• The Effect of Empathy in Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors (2007, background): “As Batson et al. (2002) pointed out, these feelings can be stimulated by taking the perspective of a person in need and imagining how that person is affected by his or her plight.”
• Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes (2019, background): “The information revealed by Salah about life for many Muslims is similarly new and positive for many fans, and revealed in a personalized manner consistent with best practices deployed in empathybuilding interventions (Crisp and Turner, 2009; Batson et al., 2002).”
• Effects of Intergroup Dialogue: Public School Teachers and Sexual Orientation Prejudice (2010, background): “Other researchers have approached prejudice reduction through attitude change by similar processes of influencing ingroup and outgroup perceptions (Crisp, 2005), facilitating intergroup contact and its impact on social identity roles and potential for cross-group friendships (Brewer, 1996; Pettigrew”
• How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “For example, psychology research demonstrates that feelings of empathic concern for a member of a stigmatized group, such as a homeless person or an AIDS victim, can reduce stigmatization and prejudice (e.g., Batson et al. 1997;Batson et al. 2002).”
• The Relationships of Public and Self-Stigma to Seeking Mental Health Services (2011, background): “Individual differences in empathy have been found to correlate with generalized prejudice against different out-groups (Batson et al., 2002).”