Empathic Concern

• Sympathy” feeling for another person who is suffering.

• Batson (1991) and Preston and de Waal (2002)

  • Batson, C. D. (1991). The altruism question: Toward a social-psychological answer. Hillsdale, NJ:

• benevolent motivation

"empathic concern captures a perceiver’s desire to alleviate a target’s distress (Batson, 2008)". (WEISZ 2016)*

Batson, C. D. (2008). Empathy-Induced Altruistic Motivation. Herzlyia Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology, 1–32. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/12061-001