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| Autor/inn/en | Batson, C. Daniel; und weitere |
|---|---|
| Titel | Distress and Empathy: Two Qualitatively Distinct Vicarious Emotions with Different Motivational Consequences. |
| Quelle | (1984), (33 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Altruism; Emotional Response; Empathy; Helping Relationship; Individual Needs; Motivation; Prosocial Behavior; Social Attitudes; Social Cognition |
| Abstract | The construct of empathy may be located conceptually at several different points in a network of social cognition and vicarious emotion. This paper discusses one specific form of emotional empathy, empathy in response to perceiving another person in need. First, evidence is reviewed suggesting that there are at least two distinct types of congruent vicarious emotional responses to perceiving another in need: feelings of personal distress (e.g., alarmed, upset, worried, disturbed, distressed, troubled, etc.), and feelings of empathy (e.g., sympathetic, moved, compassionate, tender, warm, softhearted, etc.). Next, evidence is reviewed suggesting that these two vicarious emotions have distinct motivational consequences. Whereas personal distress seems to evoke egoistic motivation to reduce one's own aversive arousal, as a traditional Hullian tension-reduction model would propose, empathy does not. Motivation evoked by empathy appears to be altruistic. The ultimate goal seems to be reduction of the other's need, not reduction of one's own aversive arousal. The emotional and motivational differentiation suggested by the empirical evidence seems more congruent with the analysis of the nature of emotion and motivation proposed long ago by McDougall than that proposed by Hull. (Author) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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