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Empathic concern

Empathic concern refers to other-oriented emotions elicited by, and congruent with the perceived welfare of, someone in need. These other-oriented emotions include feelings of tenderness, sympathy, compassion and soft-heartedness.

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Empathic concern

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Edges31
Triples56
Avg. degree1.94
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related to Further reading · 34
Empathic concern → Batson, Berger, Cambridge, Consciousness Studies, Counseling, Decety, Development, Eds, Emotion, Empathy, Handbook, Ickes, Imagination, In, Journal, Klein, Markman, Mental Simulation, MIT, MIT Press
related to Contribution of social psychology · 6
Empathic concern → Daniel Batson, Empathic, Empirical, His, That, The
related to Definition · 5
Empathic concern → Batson, Daniel Batson, Especially, Other, Others
related to Developmental origins · 5
Empathic concern → As, Both, Developmental, Empathic, Some
related to Social neuroscience evidence · 4
Empathic concern → Alternatively, An, Neural, Social
related to Evolutionary origins · 2
Empathic concern → At, Notably

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concern empathic social neuroscience sympathy others emotions distress empathy batson emotion other-oriented perceived compassion perspective imagining welfare emotional studies decety

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Empathic concernrelated to Contribution of social psychologyEmpathic0.60section
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Empathic concernrelated to DefinitionDaniel Batson0.60section
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Empathic concernrelated to Developmental originsEmpathic0.60section

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