Narrowing down to open up for other people's concerns: Empathic concern can be enhanced by inducing detailed processing

Woltin, Karl‐Andrew; Corneille, Olivier; Yzerbyt, Vincent; Förster, Jens

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2010.11.006

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“…Although we argue that moral emotions are generally high-level because they involve distancing and abstract construal, there are exceptions. Affective empathy, for example, which involves contagion with another individual's affective state-that is, when we feel what the other person is feeling-does not require much perspective taking or abstract construal (Davis, Hull, Young, & Warren, 1987;Small, Loewenstein, & Slovic, 2007;Woltin, Corneille, Yzerbyt, & Förster, 2011). Unlike cognitive empathy which involves perspective taking, or more specifically, the ability to correctly infer what others are thinking or feeling, affective empathy may in fact be discounted with temporal distance.…”

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Emotions in Time: Moral Emotions Appear More Intense with Temporal Distance

Agerström¹,

Björklund²,

Carlsson³

2012

Social Cognition

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How intense do people expect their future emotional reactions to be? This should depend on the fit between the social perspective (near vs. distant) involved in the emotion and the emotion-eliciting event's temporal distance. Temporal distance and social distance are interrelated . We therefore argue that people should anticipate experiencing emotions that involve taking a socially distant perspective (e.g., guilt and shame in contrast to pleasure and sadness) with greater intensity when they predict their emotional reactions for distant-future events. The results from a series of experiments confirmed this prediction. Moreover, it was found that when people imagine emotional experiences that necessitate taking a more socially distant perspective, they construe these experiences to be more temporally distant.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotions in Time: Moral Emotions Appear More Intense with Temporal Distance

Agerström¹,

Björklund²,

Carlsson³

2012

Social Cognition

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“…Power tends to reduce not only empathic accuracy [9] but also empathic concern [14]. Relative to low-power individuals, high-power individuals are particularly inspired by their own, but not others', experiences and stories [15].…”

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The interpersonal nature of power and status

Smith

Magee

2015

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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“…Woltin et al, 2011). However, similar to most psychological constructs, the specific definition of empathy is debatable.…”

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An emotion-differentiated perspective on empathy with the emotion specific empathy questionnaire

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Empathy refers to the thoughts and feelings of one individual in response to the observed (emotional) experiences of another individual. Empathy, however, can occur toward persons experiencing a variety of emotions, raising the question of whether or not empathy can be emotion specific. This paper discusses theoretical and empirical support for the emotion specificity of empathy. We present a new measure, the Emotion Specific Empathy questionnaire, which assesses affective and cognitive empathy for the six basic emotions. This paper presents the measure's psychometric qualities and demonstrates, through a series of models, the discriminant validity between emotion specific empathies suggesting empathy is emotion specific. Results and implications are discussed.

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Narrowing down to open up for other people's concerns: Empathic concern can be enhanced by inducing detailed processing

Cited by 62 publications

References 63 publications

Emotions in Time: Moral Emotions Appear More Intense with Temporal Distance

Emotions in Time: Moral Emotions Appear More Intense with Temporal Distance

The interpersonal nature of power and status

An emotion-differentiated perspective on empathy with the emotion specific empathy questionnaire

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