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@article{Batson1991EmpathicJA, title={Empathic joy and the empathy-altruism hypothesis.}, author={C. Daniel Batson and Judy G. Batson and Jacqueline K. Slingsby and Kevin L. Harrell and Heli M. Peekna and R. Matthew Todd}, journal={Journal of personality and social psychology}, year={1991}, volume={61 3}, pages={ 413-26 }, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21566717}}
  • C. Batson, Judy G. Batson, R. Todd
  • Published in Journal of Personality and… 1 September 1991
  • Psychology

Results of none of the experiments patterned as predicted by the empathic-joy hypothesis; instead, results of each were consistent with the empathy-altruism hypothesis.

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Additional evidence is provided that empathic emotion can evoke altruistic motivation to help. To provide this evidence, we employed Stotland's (1969) technique for manipulating empathy; subjects…

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Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation
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It has been suggested that empathy leads to altruistic rather than egoistic motivation to help. This hypothesis was tested by having subjects watch another female undergraduate receive electric…

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Social evaluation and the empathy-altruism hypothesis.
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It is suggested that the motivation to help evoked by empathy is not egoistic motivation to avoid negative social evaluation, and the observed pattern was what would be expected if empathy evokes altruistic motivated motivation to reduce the victim's need.

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It is hypothesized that an observer's heightened empathy for a sufferer brings with it increased personal sadness in the observer and that it is the egoistic desire to relieve the sadness, rather than the selfless desire to relief the sufferer, that motivates helping.

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Five studies testing two new egoistic alternatives to the empathy-altruism hypothesis.
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Results of five studies supported the empathy-altruism hypothesis and two new egoistic alternatives to this hypothesis explored, finding that empathic emotion evokes altruistic motivation continues to mount.

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The recent empirical evidence appears to support the more differentiated view of emotion and motivation proposed long ago by McDougall, not the unitary view proposed by Hull and his followers.

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Empathy, Sadness, and Distress: Three Related but Distinct Vicarious Affective Responses to Another's Suffering.
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It is concluded that motivational models of helping and models of vicarious affect should include sadness as a response that is distinct from but related to both empathy and distress.

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Introduction: critical issues in the study of empathy, N.Eisenberg and J.Strayer. Part 1 Historical and theoretical perspectives: history of concept of empathy, L.Wispe evolutionary bases of empathy,…

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The Altruism Question: Toward A Social-psychological Answer
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  • 1991

Contents: The Question Posed by Our Concern for Others: Altruism or Egoism? Part I: The Altruism Question in Western Thought.Egoism and Altruism in Western Philosophy. Egoism and Altruism in Early…

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Keeping track of needs in communal and exchange relationships was investigated in two experiments and found support for the hypothesis that even when nothing can be done to help the other, keeping track of the other's needs will be greater if a communal relationships is desired with the other than if an exchange relationship is desired.

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