Against empathy: The case for rational compassion

By Polina Kukar. 2018

173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3a3002d951aea2e8c35e5a1b9a5a1dcf872c6a6f

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Scott Clifford

In Social Psychology

1. E. Simas
2. Justin H. Kirkland
3. Scott Clifford

Citations in the corpus

• How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “Thus, not only is empathic concern most closely related to popular arguments regarding empathy and polarization, but it is also the strongest predictor of approach-oriented actions and prosocial behaviors (e.g., Bekkers 2005; Jordan, Amir, and Bloom 2016; Wilhelm and Bekkers 2010).”
• Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability (2019, background): “Uncritical empathy has the potential to introduce biases in judgements about fair action when considering others (Bloom, 2017b).”