Does empathy undermine justice? Moderating the impact of empathic concern for a White policeman on responses to police interracial violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 752-772
Author(s):  
James Johnson ◽  
Len Lecci
Keyword(s):  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Interracial Violence ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The impact of anger on donations to victims

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne van Doorn ◽  
Marcel Zeelenberg ◽  
Seger M Breugelmans
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Charitable Donations ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
The Impact

This article investigates if and when anger appeals (communications that elicit anger in people), can be used to increase donations to charity. In an experimental study the idea was tested that anger leads to higher charitable donations, under the condition that people can restore equity with that donation (i.e., restore the harm done to the victim). Results indeed show that when one’s donation serves a specific restorative function (i.e., compensates the suffering of women so that they can start a new life) as compared to a non-restorative function (i.e., offers help in special crisis centers for women, to alleviate their suffering and not worsen their situation), angry participants donated more to charity. This difference was absent when people did not experience anger. Furthermore, angry people donated more to the restorative charity than people not experiencing this emotion. The effect of anger on charitable donations occurred independently from people’s empathic concern. These results thus suggest that anger can act as an emotional appeal in soliciting charitable donations.

scholarly journals The Impact of Writing About Gratitude on the Intention to Engage in Prosocial Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Oliveira ◽  
Aíssa Baldé ◽  
Marta Madeira ◽  
Teresa Ribeiro ◽  
Patrícia Arriaga
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Gratitude Intervention ◽  
Prosocial Intentions ◽  
The Impact

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has quickly swept the globe leaving a devastating trail of lost human lives and leading to a public health and economic crisis. With this in mind, prosociality has been heralded as a potential important factor to overcome the negative effects of the pandemic. As such, in this study, we examined the effectiveness of a brief reflexive writing exercise about recent experiences of gratitude on individuals’ intentions to engage in prosocial behaviors using a sample of 253 participants living in Portugal and 280 participants living in Brazil. Participants were randomly assigned to either a condition in which they were asked to write about recent experiences of gratitude or a control group in which they were asked to write about daily tasks. We predicted that the gratitude intervention would increase state gratitude and, consequently, increase positive affect and empathic concern, and decrease negative affect, leading to increased intentions to engage in prosocial behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. A moderated serial–parallel mediation analysis, in which we controlled for gender, age, and level of religiosity, indicated that our manipulation led to increases in state gratitude, which in turn increased positive emotions and empathic concern, leading to increased prosocial intentions in both countries. A content analysis of participants’ responses in the gratitude group revealed that relationships with others and health and well-being were the central themes of their gratitude experiences during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

An Exploration of Empathy and Personality in Preservice Counselors

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Kathleen Kutsko ◽  
◽  
Roxanne Duviver ◽  
Gina Oswald ◽  
Adrianne Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Counselor Trainees ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Essential Ingredient ◽  
Counseling Relationships ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Empathy allows individuals to care for the well-being of others and act with compassion. Research indicates that empathy is an essential ingredient for developing successful counseling relationships, leading to positive change for clients. Determining how empathy is related to personality provides counselors with valuable information for exploring the impact of personality on empathy in counselor trainees. To explore the relationship between empathy and personality among counselor trainees, the researchers compared scores on the MBTI® and the IRI. Results of this study suggest a clear relationship between personality and empathy and were similar to the findings of previous researchers. In addition, this study demonstrated that the MBTI® type preferences of extraversion, intuition, feeling and perceiving are significantly higher than introversion, sensing, thinking and judging on the various empathy scales, specifically in the areas of empathic concern, perspective taking, personal distress and fantasy. Implications were discussed for both counselor educators and practitioners.

The Role of Interpersonal Sexual Objectification in Heterosexual Intimate Partner Violence From Perspectives of Perceivers and Targets

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052092234
Author(s):  
Gemma Sáez ◽  
Abigail R. Riemer ◽  
Rebecca L. Brock ◽  
Sarah J. Gervais
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Sexual Objectification ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Sexist Discrimination ◽  
The Impact

Sexual objectification is a subtle manifestation of sexist discrimination and violence against women that involves seeing and treating women as sex objects of male sexual desire. The primary aim of this research was to connect sexual objectification experiences with heterosexual intimate partner violence. This set of studies examined the impact of sexual objectification on intimate partner violence for both the female victim (Study 1) and the male perpetrator (Study 2). Female (Study 1) and male (Study 2) participants were asked to rate the extent they are victims or perpetrators of sexual objectification experiences and intimate partner violence. Moreover, women’s self-silencing and men’s ascriptions of humanity and empathy (through empathic concern and perspective taking) toward their partner was assessed. The results of the first study (including 154 heterosexual women) showed that general sexual objectification victimization indirectly leads to higher psychological and physical violence through the internalization of self-silence schemas. The second study (including 165 heterosexual men) demonstrated a link between general sexual objectification perpetration and psychological and physical intimate partner violence. Moreover, the relation between men’s perpetration of objectification and intimate partner violence was mediated by ascriptions of humanity and empathic concern toward their female partner (but not through perspective taking toward her). Results of both studies demonstrate the effect of sexual objectification (as target or perpetrator) on global intimate partner violence and explain the different psychological mechanisms through which it takes place depending on the gendered perspective. Theoretical implications and practical considerations for interventions on intimate partner violence are discussed.

When Caring Leaders Are Constrained: The Impact of LMX Differentiation on Leader Empathic Concern in Predicting Discretionary Work Behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Haynie ◽  
John Baur ◽  
John N. Harris ◽  
Stanley G. Harris ◽  
K. Nathan Moates
Keyword(s):  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Work Behaviors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Lmx Theory ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
Empathic Leadership ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Quality Relationships

Empathic leaders often create high-quality relationships with their subordinates, and these relationships are suggested to increase several beneficial outcomes for employees and organizations alike. Yet leader–member exchange (LMX) theory suggests that leaders do not have such high-quality relationships with each of their subordinates, leading to varying levels of LMX differentiation. We examine how leaders’ empathic concern, a trait-based assessment of leader empathy, may incite additional discretionary efforts in the form of assisting coworkers with interpersonal facilitation and taking on additional tasks with job dedication. However, we suggest that when these empathic leaders are constrained, it reduces their ability to form high-quality relationships with all of their subordinates, resulting in high LMX differentiation. This LMX differentiation is expected to influence empathic leaders’ ability to motivate their followers to engage in altruistic behaviors. In a field study of workplace groups, we find that leader empathic concern positively affects interpersonal facilitation and job dedication only when LMX differentiation is low, providing support for our contention that the effects of empathic leadership may be situationally constrained. Findings and future directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Empathy and Language in the Clinician Patient Relationship: Improving the Translation of Evidence to Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-592
Author(s):  
Cynthia Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Dietary Change ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Implicit Biases ◽  
The Impact

For clinicians, effective communication goes beyond the delivery of scientific information to include an understanding of who the patient is and what they value; treating them with respect; and acknowledging their emotional and social realities. Recognizing our own implicit biases and cultivating a more mindful approach to the impact of language, especially around weight and food, and using verbal and nonverbal approaches to convey empathic concern can improve our relationships with our patients. Patients who feel seen and respected are more likely to follow through with recommendations including dietary change, leading to improved health and quality of life.

scholarly journals Help or Flight? Increased threat imminence promotes defensive helping in humans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Vieira ◽  
Sabine Schellhaas ◽  
Erik Enström ◽  
Andreas Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Defensive Responses ◽  
Helping Behaviour ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Active Escape

Defensive responses to threatening situations vary with threat imminence, but it is unknown how those responses affect decisions to help others. Here, we manipulated threat imminence to investigate the impact of different defensive states on helping behaviour. Ninety-eight participants made trial-by-trial decisions about whether to help a co-participant avoid an aversive shock, at the risk of receiving a shock themselves. Helping decisions were prompted under imminent or distal threat, based on temporal distance to the moment of shock administration to the co-participant. Results showed that, regardless of how likely participants were to also receive a shock, they helped the co-participant more under imminent than distal threat. Individual differences in empathic concern were specifically correlated with helping during imminent threats. These results suggest defensive states driving active escape from immediate danger also facilitate decisions to help others, potentially by engaging neurocognitive systems implicated in caregiving across mammals.

The impact of in‐person and video‐recorded animal experiences on zoo visitors' cognition, affect, empathic concern, and conservation intent

Zoo Biology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-373
Author(s):  
Lance J. Miller ◽  
Jerry F. Luebke ◽  
Jennifer Matiasek ◽  
Douglas A. Granger ◽  
Catherine Razal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empathic Concern ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Impact of Proximity on Consumer Fair Trade Engagement and Purchasing Behavior: The Moderating Role of Empathic Concern and Hypocrisy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvina Gillani ◽  
Smirti Kutaula ◽  
Leonidas C. Leonidou ◽  
Paul Christodoulides
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Control Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychological Proximity

Abstract The article reports the findings of an empirical study among consumers, regarding the impact of physical, social, and psychological proximity on their engagement to the fair trade idea and purchasing behavior. Based on a random sample of 211 British and 112 Indian consumers and using structural equation modeling, it was found that high levels of physical, social, and psychological proximity leads to high consumer fair trade engagement. Moreover, consumer fair trade engagement was confirmed to have a positive impact on fair trade purchasing behavior. Furthermore, consumer empathic concern was found to positively moderate the association between proximity and consumer fair trade engagement, while the opposite was true with regard to consumer hypocrisy. Finally, consumer nationality was found to have a control effect on physical, social, and psychological proximity, with the latter felt stronger among Indian, as opposed to British consumers.

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