The Altruism Question: Toward A Social-psychological Answer
- C. Batson
- Psychology
- 1 July 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…
Altruism in Humans
- C. Batson
- Psychology, Biology
- 28 January 2011
The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis is applied as a guide for the development of a Pluralism of Prosocial Motives-and a More Humane Society in the 21st Century.
Empathy and attitudes: can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group improve feelings toward the group?
- C. Batson, M. P. Polycarpou, L. Highberger
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1997
Results of 3 experiments suggest that feeling empathy for a member of a stigmatized group can improve attitudes toward the group as a whole and possible limits of the empathy-attitude effect are tested.
Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective
- C. Batson, P. Schoenrade, W. L. Ventis
- Psychology
- 25 March 1993
What leads a person to become religious? What happens psychologically in a religious experience? Does religion make a person happier, more open, more psychologically healthy, more tolerant, more…
Perspective Taking: Imagining How Another Feels Versus Imaging How You Would Feel
- C. Batson, Shannon Early, Giovanni Salvarani
- Psychology
- 1 July 1997
Although often confused, imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel are two distinct forms of perspective taking with different emotional consequences. The former evokes empathy;…
The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal
The view that humans' responses to the pain of others can be modulated by cognitive and motivational processes, which influence whether observing a conspecific in need of help will result in empathic concern, an important instigator for helping behavior, is supported.
Distress and empathy: two qualitatively distinct vicarious emotions with different motivational consequences.
- C. Batson, J. Fultz, P. Schoenrade
- PsychologyJournal of Personality
- 1 March 1987
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.
Measuring Religion as Quest: 2) Reliability Concerns
- C. Batson, P. Schoenrade
- Psychology
- 1 December 1991
In this paper, concerns are addressed regarding the reliability of the Quest scale introduced by Batson (1976) and Batson and Ventis (1982). After briefly reviewing the evidence, we have concluded…
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