Needless to say, pity, sympathy, empathy, compassion, and altruism often blur and overlap. The Empathy Paradox. My friend tearfully confides that, as a child, she was sexually abused by her father.

Yet the relationship between empathy and altruism is still far from clear. Psychologist Lidewij Niezink has researched this subject. She concluded that when we help friends in need, ...

Instead, says Brooks, moral action stems not from empathy but from a “sense of obligation to some religious, military, social or philosophic code.” There’s some truth to this. Research has not proven ...

Warm glow altruism isn’t empathy at all (“look at all the money I’m giving to blind babies!”), but communal narcissism, a way of feeling good about ourselves, ...

This gave them a measurement of each person's general levels of empathy and altruism toward their partner. Then the participants entered a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.

After studying and noting a decline in empathy in young people between 1979 and 2009, Konrath, director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University ...

Evolutionary theorists see the emergence of empathy in humans and other animals as biology’s way of promoting altruism. “We actually think that empathy in mammals started with maternal care ...

Altruism is defined as the unselfish concern for other people—doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you feel obligated to do so out of duty, loyalty, or religious reasons.

Needless to say, pity, sympathy, empathy, compassion, and altruism often blur and overlap. The Empathy Paradox. My friend tearfully confides that, as a child, she was sexually abused by her father.

After studying and noting a decline in empathy in young people between 1979 and 2009, Konrath, director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University ...