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Reflexive empathy: On predicting more than has ever been observed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Bandura@p1sych.stanford.edu
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Abstract

A model positing that perception of another's affective state automatically generates matching emotional and instrumental responses predicts more than has ever been observed. Reflexive empathicness would produce emotional exhaustion, inhibitory strain, and debilitate everyday functioning. Self-regulation of empathic responses involves, not only reactive inhibition, but agentic proactive control. Pervasive inhumanities involve selective disengagement of empathic restraints through dissociative psychosocial mechanisms.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 24 - 25
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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