These things called empathy: Eight related but distinct phenomena.

By C. Daniel Batson. 2009

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It’s All About the Self (2016, background): “Perspective taking—the active and intentional attempt to imagine another’s perspective—additionally represents a pivotal component in the many conceptualizations of empathy (e.g., Batson, 2009; Decety & Jackson, 2006; Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy (2011, background): “A key component of this response is the suite of cognitive and affective capacities called empathy (Batson, 2009): people recognize emotional experiences in others, experience matched sensations and emotions, and are motivated to alleviate those others’ suffering, frequently resulting in helping…”
Teacher Empathy: A Model of Empathy for Teaching for Student Success (2019, methodology): “To develop our definition of teacher empathy, we focused primarily on the theoretical work of Batson (2009, 3 – 15) and Segal (2011, 266 – 77), who discussed interpersonal and social empathy respectively.”
Social dimension of emotions and its implication for animal welfare (2012, background): “another person (Preston and de Waal, 2002; Batson, 2009).”
Seeing mind in action (2012, background): “Daniel Batson observes that “[t]he term empathy is currently applied to more than a half-dozen phenomena,” and that “each is a conceptually distinct, stand-alone psychological state” (Batson 2009, p. 3).”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “The literature on perspective taking argues that the thoughtful consideration of the world from other viewpoints (Davis, 1983) increases the perceived overlap between the perspective taker and the target of perspective taking, thereby increasing tolerance, empathic concern, and helping (Batson, 2009”
Emotion and the Law (2012, background): “This concern may be well-founded if empathy means an “impulse to respond with sensitivity and care to the suffering of another” (Batson 2009, p. 9).”
A Pilot Study of Contemplative Practices with Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers: Children’s Empathic and Self-Regulatory Behaviors (2016, result): “The concept of empathy has been defined as an individual’s ability to recognize another’s emotions and perspective and to produce a response that is affectively and cognitively similar to the observed emotions or perspectives (Batson 2009; Knafo et al. 2008; Roth-Hanania et al. 2011).”
Feelings for the Suffering of Others and the Environment (2016, background): “In fact, empathic concern is often used interchangeably with compassion (cf. Batson, 2009; Goetz et al., 2010; Singer & Klimecki, 2014).”
What Is It like to Feel Another’s Pain?* (2012, background): “It is one thing to explain the cognitive and psychological competence underlying an individual’s ability to perform tasks of affective mind reading, or in Batson’s (2009) terms, “how one can know what another person is thinking and feeling.”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “These phenomena are related to one another, but they are not elements, aspects or facets of a single thing that is empathy, as one might say that an attitude has cognitive, affective, and behavioral components (Batson, 2009).”
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes (2012, background): “For example, Batson (2009) distinguishes eight different concepts of empathy.”
Empathy, gender, and prosocial behavior (2020, background): “There is strong evidence that greater empathy (both situational and dispositional) is connected to more prosocial behavior (Batson, 2011a; Batson et al. 2015; Davis, 2015; Eisenberg & Miller, 1987; Hein et al. 2010).”
Perspective taking and empathic concern in adolescence: gender differences in developmental changes. (2014, background): “Theorists propose that even though affective empathy is already evident in early childhood, advances in perspective taking will still enhance the ability to sympathize with others in adolescence, resulting in increasing empathic concern (Batson, 2009; Hoffman, 2000).”