Empathic responding: Sympathy and personal distress.

By N. Eisenberg, Natalie D. Eggum. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education

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Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “Sympathy is thought to be a proxy for motivating prosocial behavior, guiding our preferences and behavioral responses, and providing the affective and motivational base for moral development (Eisenberg & Eggum, 2009).”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “The process depends on at least some bottom-up affective sharing; persons who have deficits in this ability have difficulty understanding others and show less concern for their welfare (Eisenberg & Eggum, 2009).”
Promoting Altruism Through Meditation: An 8-Week Randomized Controlled Pilot Study (2013, background): “The arousal, however, is not in itself a sufficient basis for engaging in altruistic motivated behavior, but it may evolve into EC, personal distress (PD), or both (Eisenberg and Eggum 2011; Piliavin and Charng 1990).”
Social understanding and self-regulation predict pre-schoolers’ sharing with friends and disliked peers (2015, methodology): “As theories have suggested relations between the understanding of other’s intentionality and perspective on the one hand, and prosocial behavior on the other hand (Decety & Svetlova, 2012; Eisenberg & Eggum, 2009; Kagan, 1981; Moore, 2007), we administered two further tasks.”
Negotiating the Process of Historical Empathy (2014, background): “In this case, their reactions may have signaled a shift from empathy to sympathy or personal distress; reactions people have when they experience an affective response above a certain threshold (Eisenberg & Eggum, 2009).”
To What Extent is the Experience of Empathy Mediated by Shared Neural Circuits? (2010, background): “Sympathy is thought to be a proxy for motivating prosocial behavior, guiding our preferences and behavioral responses, and providing the affective and motivational base for moral development (Eisenberg & Eggum, 2009).”