Empathy and justice motivation
@article{Hoffman1990EmpathyAJ, title={Empathy and justice motivation}, author={Martin L. Hoffman}, journal={Motivation and Emotion}, year={1990}, volume={14}, pages={151-172} }
Empathic distress is defined as an aversive feeling contingent on another's physical, emotional, or economic distress. The paper (1) summarizes a developmental scheme consisting of four stages of empathic distress; (2) suggests that causal attributions may partly transform empathic distress into sympathy, empathic anger, feeling of injustice, and guilt feeling; (3) notes the evidence that these empathic affects often serve to motivate moral behavior, and therefore that they qualify as moral…
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The present systematic literature review was designed to synthesize current empirical contributions that explore the link between attachment and the development of moral emotions during childhood and adolescence to contribute to the understanding of an empathic, healthy development in contrast to the alienation and bullying affecting the youth's emotional, relational and academic lives.
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