Empathy-induced altruism in a prisoner's dilemma II: what if the target of empathy has defected?

By C. Daniel Batson, N. Ahmad. 2001

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Mark Schaller
2. Justin H. Park
3. Jo-Ann Tsang
4. Gillian Ku
5. Cynthia S. Wang
6. Lea H Dunn
7. Adam D. Galinsky
8. Ann C. Rumble

In Safety Research

1. P. V. van Lange
2. Jillian J. Jordan
3. Adam M. Grant
4. J. Joireman
5. Alex Peysakhovich
6. Gillian Ku
7. Cynthia S. Wang
8. C. Parks

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. V. van Lange
2. Adam M. Grant
3. M. van Vugt
4. Mark Schaller
5. Gillian Ku
6. Adam D. Galinsky
7. Cynthia S. Wang
8. Justin H. Park

Citations in the corpus

• Psychometric and Rationalization Accounts of the Religion‐Forgiveness Discrepancy (2005, methodology): “Rather than relying on self-reports of forgiveness, psychologists might use research paradigms such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma to measure allocation of resources after a laboratory transgression (e.g., Batson & Ahmad, 2001).”
• Why We Cooperate (2014, background): “…colleagues have showed that experimentally manipulating empathic concern increases cooperative behaviors, such as volunteering to take electric shocks instead of the target (Batson, Duncan, Ackerman, Buckley, & Birch, 1981), and cooperating with the target in economic games (Batson & Ahmad, 2001).”
• Perception through a perspective-taking lens: Differential effects on judgment and behavior (2010, methodology): “We purposely used the African-American’s stereotypic aggressiveness and a PDG as a conservative test of our hypothesis because previous research has found that perspective-taking increases cooperation in PDGs (Batson & Ahmad, 2001; Batson & Moran, 1999).”
• Moral Emotions and Unethical Bargaining: The Differential Effects of Empathy and Perspective Taking in Deterring Deceitful Negotiation (2010, background): “Empathy is a moral emotional process that encourages cooperation (Batson & Ahmad, 2001; Batson & Moran, 1999) and prosocial behavior (Davis, 1983a; Eisenberg & Miller, 1987), and discourages prejudice (Batson & Ahmad, 2009; Batson et al., 1997; Stephan & Finlay, 1999) and antisocial behavior…”
• Psychology of Human Kin Recognition: Heuristic Cues, Erroneous Inferences, and Their Implications (2008, background): “For instance, individuals experiencing empathy are more likely to cooperate, even after defection by the partner (Batson & Ahmad, 2001).”
• Promoting Altruism Through Meditation: An 8-Week Randomized Controlled Pilot Study (2013, background): “…Eisenberg 1988), improved attitudes towards stigmatized groups (Batson et al. 1997), and enhanced social closeness and decreased loneliness (Crocker and Carnevello 2008), and to an increased tendency to give during a “prisoner’s dilemma” when the other already has defected (Batson and Ahmad 2001).”
• The benefits of empathy: When empathy may sustain cooperation in social dilemmas (2009, methodology): “The empathy manipulation was modeled after the procedure used by Batson and colleagues (Batson, 1991; Batson & Ahmad, 2001; Batson & Moran, 1999).”
• Forecasting Decisions in Conflict Situations: A Comparison of Game Theory, Role-playing, and Unaided Judgement (2002, background): “They suggested that ‘‘policies based on Batson and Ahmad (2001) compared the predic- that equilibrium’s predictions are suspect’’.”
• Building genuine trust through interpersonal emotion management: A threat regulation model of trust and collaboration across boundaries (2007, background): “When a boundary spanner intentionally engages in threat regulation, the resulting empathy can curb selfinterested behavior that might disadvantage the target of his or her concern (Batson & Ahmad, 2001; Frank, 1988; Shott, 1979), thus making the boundary spanner more trustworthy.”
• How can we promote behaviour that serves all of us in the future (2008, background): “As a case in point, Batson and Ahmad (2001) had participants play a singletrial prisoner's dilemma in which the other made the first choice.”
• Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. (2011, unknown): “Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 107–131. doi:10.1177/097133369700900105 Halawi, J. (2002, August 15–21). “Honour” drenched in blood. Al-Ahram Weekly. Retrieved from http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/599/eg4.htm Hamlin, J., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2007, November 22). Social evaluation by preverb”
• Corporate social responsibility organizational identification and motivation (2011, background): “In another study, Batson and Ahmad (2001) found that people who experienced empathic concern tended to show high levels of cooperative responses even when they knew that their partner had already made a competitive choice.”
• Negative Reviews, Positive Impact: Consumer Empathetic Responding to Unfair Word of Mouth (2020, methodology): “Furthermore, such moral concern can motivate reparative actions on the part of the observer (Batson and Ahmad 2001; Rumble, Van Lange, and Parks 2010).”