Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

By F. D. de Waal. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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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.”
Emotional mimicry: why and when we mimic emotions (2014, background): “Affective empathy in turn has been defined as a process during which the perception of another’s emotional state generates a matching state in the perceiver (see e.g., de Waal, 2008).”
The Neural Bases for Empathy (2011, background): “De Waal (2008) suggests that the phylogenetically earliest system is the emotional contagion system, in which one is affected by another’s emotional or arousal state.”
Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment (2021, background): “They may facilitate group living in social species by promoting communication, cooperation, and bond formation between individuals (Spoor and Kelly, 2004; De Waal, 2008; ˇ 2012).”
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).”
Assessing empathy in young children: Construction and validation of an Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue) (2010, background): “This might support the Russian doll idea by De Waal (2008), implying that Attention to Others’ Feelings is a precondition for children’s prosocial behaviour.”
Interpersonal emotion regulation. (2013, background): “Further, both relate to a third empathic subcomponent: the motive to alter the trajectory of Person A’s emotional experience (Batson, 2011; de Waal, 2008; Harbaugh, Mayr, & Burghart, 2007; Waytz, Zaki, & Mitchell, 2012; Zaki & Mitchell, in press).”
Do Elephants Show Empathy (2008, background): “It is, then, no surprise that it is in primates ( de Waal, 1996, 2008 ) and in elephants that empathy has been detected.”
Exploring the When and Why of Schadenfreude (2009, positive): “Clearly, one reason that we are drawn to other people’s suffering is that we feel empathy for them (Batson, 1991; Decety, Michalska, & Akitsuki, 2008; de Waal, 2008; Hoffman, 1981; Wispé, 1991).”
Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. (2009, background): “…tells us that our ANRV364-PS60-25 ARI 24 November 2008 18:59 ability to empathize, a building block of our sociality (Adolphs 2009) and morality (de Waal 2008, Tangney et al. 2007), has been built " bottom up " from relatively simple mechanisms of action production and perception (Iacoboni 2008).”
The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Conflict Resolution (2019, background): “Among emotional processes, empathy in general is often considered an important factor in promoting cooperation between interdependent individuals (de Waal, 2008) and good intergroup relations (Batson & Ahmad, 2009; Dovidio et al., 2010; Stephan & Finlay, 1999).”
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, &…”