Compassion and altruism: how our minds determine who is worthy of help

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	DeSteno, David
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The causal role of affective experiences in the generation of altruistic behavior has emerged as a topic of great interest during the past decade. If continued advancement is to be made, however, two primary issues need to be addressed. The first involves the use of terms such as empathy and compassion. The second involves examination of the ability of these emotional states to be tuned to the ratio of costs and benefits inherent in any given opportunity for altruistic action. In this article, therefore, I attempt to delineate a specific use for the term compassion to capture one aspect of what has traditionally been termed empathy and then show how this specific emotional state is contextually responsive to trade-offs involving immediate and delayed reward.
Starting Page	80
Ending Page	83
Page Count	4
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DOI	10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.02.002
Volume Number	3
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Journal	Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article