Empathy: a motivated account.

By Jamil Zaki. Psychological bulletin, 2014

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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Addressing Empathic Failures (2015, background): “One common assumption is that empathy is uncontrollable—something that automatically happens or does not happen to perceivers when they encounter others in distress (Zaki, 2014).”
How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization (2019, background): “In contrast, indiscriminate empathy toward outgroup members, particularly when resources are limited or during times of intergroup conflict, can be costly (Zaki 2014).”
The Emotional Cost of Humanity (2016, background): “Emotional costs have been discussed as a motivation for empathy avoidance (Zaki, 2014), and correlational work suggests that anticipating affective rewards from helping is associated with empathic engagement (Davis et al., 1999).”
An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion in Mental Health With a Focus on Affiliative Emotions (2015, background): “In highly competitive, tribal, or aggressive situations empathic (or lack of) emotions are quite different to those in caring relationships (Zaki, 2014) Emotions are not the only processes that guide motivated actions because reasoning and foresight do too.”
Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking (2018, background): “Additionally, imagining what it would be like to be someone else is cognitively taxing [39– 40].”
The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Conflict Resolution (2019, background): “As positive feelings are an important motivator for feeling emotions in general (Tamir, 2009) and empathy in particular (Zaki, 2014), the increase in positive emotions through compassion training, even in the face of suffering (Klimecki et al., 2013), may be particularly useful for strengthening…”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “Thus, motivation becomes crucial to how (the competency of) empathy is used [121].”
The Interpersonal Functions of Empathy: A Relational Perspective (2017, background): “This article does not seek to provide an all-encompassing definition of empathy or to disentangle or distinguish empathy from related constructs (we refer the reader to excellent reviews on this topic by Cuff, Brown, Taylor, & Howat, 2016; Wondra & Ellsworth, 2015; Zaki, 2014).”