Empathic concern and helping behavior: Egoism or altruism?
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2021, Trends in Cognitive SciencesCitation Excerpt :Given these complexities, it may therefore be more fruitful to examine which empathy-related components facilitate or inhibit helping, rather than considering the relationship between helping and empathy as a whole. Generally speaking, empathic concern appears to be a highly reliable predictor of helping [38–41]. For example, trait empathic concern predicts generosity of contributions to public goods in economic games [42].
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2019, International Journal of Research in MarketingCitation Excerpt :Empathy allows one to place oneself in someone else's shoes and assess a situation as if it were affecting one's own self (Argo, Zhu, & Dahl, 2008). It can be a powerful motivator for action to the benefit of others and a central driver of prosocial behavior (Bagozzi & Moore, 1994; Basil, Ridgway, & Basil, 2008; Batson & Powell, 2003; Schroeder, Dovidio, Sibicky, Matthews, & Allen, 1988). For instance, empathy favorably influences donation behavior (Lee, Winterich, & Ross Jr, 2014) and can even motivate individuals to forsake fairness in the interest of benefitting those with whom they empathize (Batson et al., 1995; see also Lee et al., 2014).
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2018, Trends in Cognitive SciencesCitation Excerpt :Over the past two decades, there has been much interest in exploring empathy (see Glossary) as a potential mechanism for racial bias in social behaviors. Empathy refers to the affective and cognitive processes involved in understanding and sharing the emotional states of others, which produces motivation for helping others in need [6–10]. Behavioral experiments based on self-reported social decision making and empathy have shown evidence for greater empathy for same-race than other-race individuals, and moreover, the racial ingroup bias in empathy (RIBE) is associated with racial bias in social behavior (Box 1).
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John F. Dovidio, Department of Psychology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346.