Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy.

By F. D. de Waal. Annual Review of Psychology, 2008

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Different stories: How levels of familiarity with literary and genre fiction relate to mentalizing. (2017, background): “A growing literature emphasizes the importance of constructs such as empathy, concern for the thoughts and feelings of others (de Waal, 2008); and emotional intelligence, the ability to effectively integrate understanding of one’s own and others’ emotions into decision-making (Mayer, Roberts, &…”
Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (2011, background): “While the notion of understanding how animals ‘think about’ their environments may seem suspect to many ecologists, it is a main topic of study for animal behaviourists and is often crucial for properly understanding behaviour (Shettleworth 2001; DeWaal 2008).”
Monetary sacrifice among strangers is mediated by endogenous oxytocin release after physical contact (2008, background): “A possible explanation for our results is that participants in the MT group might be showing gratitude to the researchers by seeking to please them (Bonnie & De Waal, 2004; de Waal, 2006; de Waal, 2008).”
Theory of Mind and Preference Learning at the Interface of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and AI: A Review (2022, background): “Research from cognitive science on phenomena like psychological altruism, empathy (de Waal, 2008) and empathic concern (FeldmanHall et al., 2015) might help with clarifying this problem and might even provide inspiration for designing more intent aligned AI.”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “PAM and related models dovetail with evidence that many animals, including rats (Bartal, Decety, & Mason, 2011; Church, 1959), mice (Langford et al., 2006), monkeys (R. L. Miller, Banks, & Ogawa, 1963), and nonhuman primates (de Waal, 2008), share the states of conspecifics.”
The Physiology of Moral Sentiments (2011, unknown): “Maternal (and in some species paternal) care for offspring can be considered a template for more general otherregarding behaviors (De Waal, 2008; Sober and Wilson, 1998).”
Emotional Awareness: On the Importance of Including Emotional Aspects in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2013, unknown): “The basis for these reactions seems to be the existence of ‘mirror neurons’ that enable us to understand others, not through conscious thought, but through emotions (de Waal, 2008).”
The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values (2014, background): “This framework builds on the well-accepted idea that human morality is grounded in adaptive instincts such as empathy, compassion, and shame; the precursors of which have been observed in chimpanzees and elephants (Churchland, 2012; de Waal, 2008; 2013).”
Different routes to limited empathy in the sexes: Examining the links between the Dark Triad and empathy (2013, background): “Empathy is instrumental to facilitating long-term mutualistic relationships (de Waal, 2008).”
Are liars ethical? On the tension between benevolence and honesty (2014, background): “Caring for others is fundamental to the human experience and humans are hardwired to detect harm to others (Craig, 2009; De Waal, 2008; Graham et al., 2011).”
The emotional link: Leadership and the role of implicit and explicit emotional contagion processes across multiple organizational levels (2015, background): “These processes facilitate coordination and cooperative functions in complex, social organisms (de Waal, 2008).”