Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice

By B. R. Fernández. 2011

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Empathy, perspective taking and personal values as predictors of moral schemas (2010, background): “…perspective taking (putting oneself in the other’s place and imagining how she or he feels) is distinct from empathy-related reactions because it lacks emotionality (e.g. Eisenberg & Morris, 2001) and thus it can enable individuals to bypass empathic arousal and bias (Hoffman, 2000; Pizarro, 2000).”
The relationship between empathy‐related constructs and care‐based moral development in young adulthood (2010, background): “People high on personal distress seem unable to maintain an optimal distance from emotionally evocative situations (Hoffman, 2000).”
Is Empathy Necessary for Morality (2011, background): “As Darwell recognizes, empathy in its simplest form empathy is just emotional contagion: catching the emotion that another person feels (Hatfield et al., 1994; Hoffman, 2000).”
In search of profound empathy in learning relationships: understanding the mathematics of moral learning environments (2010, background): “The relationship between empathy and moral development is similarly well researched (Piaget, 1932; Rogers, 1975; McPhail et al., 1978; Kohlberg, 1984; Straughan, 1988; Bottery, 1990; Kozeki & Berghammer, 1992; Hoffman, 2000).”
Origins of human cooperation and morality. (2013, background): “From early in ontogeny, then, sympathy is a multidetermined and thus reliable response (see Hoffman 2000, Vaish & Warneken 2012).”