Regulating the costs of empathy: the price of being human

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Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience (2006, background): “However, despite the obvious advantages of understanding another person’s thoughts and feelings, empathy does not come without costs[85].”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “…which cover a broad spectrum, ranging from feelings of concern for other people that create a motivation to help them, experiencing emotions that match another individual’s emotions, knowing what the other is thinking or feeling, to blurring the line between self and other (Hodges & Klein, 2001).”
The Effect of Embodied Experiences on Self-Other Merging, Attitude, and Helping Behavior (2013, background): “The cognitive challenge of perspective taking may be even less appealing when individuals have low motivation to engage in an effortful mental task (Gehlbach, Brinkworth, & Wang, 2012; Hodges & Klein, 2001; Webster, Richter, & Kruglanski, 1996).”
The functional architecture of human empathy. (2004, background): “Even though empathy provides obvious benefits at both the individual and societal level by allowing people to coordinate their behavior and care for the other, it also has its cost in terms of maintaining an expanded self—that is, a self that is linked to others (Hodges & Klein, 2001).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “A motivated model can enrich scientific understanding of psychiatric illnesses that feature deficits in empathic processes.”