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SOCIAL ISSUES AND POLICY REVIEW
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 143-180Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-2409.2010.01020.x
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- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Development
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Empathy-related responding, including empathy, sympathy, and personal distress, has been implicated in conceptual models and theories about prosocial behavior and altruism, aggression and antisocial behavior, and intergroup relationships. Conceptual arguments and empirical findings related to each of these topics are reviewed. In general, there is evidence that empathy and/or sympathy are important correlates of, and likely contributors to, other-oriented prosocial behavior, the inhibition of aggression and antisocial behavior, and the quality of intergroup relationships. Applied implications of these findings, including prevention studies, are discussed, as are possible future directions.
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