Is empathy-induced helping due to self-other merging?
Is empathy-induced helping due to self-other merging?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.73.3.495
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发表时间：
1997-09-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Dawson, K
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作者：
Batson, CD;Sager, K;Dawson, K
有两个实验验证了共情诱导的帮助是由于自我与他人的融合。为了操纵同理心，每个实验中有一半的参与者在听到一位年轻女性需要帮助时（低同理心条件）接受了保持客观的指示，另一半则接受了想象她的感受（高同理心条件）的指示。为了检验共情-帮助关系的普遍性，在每种共情条件下，有一半人了解到年轻女子是他们大学的学生（共享小组成员），另一半人了解到她是竞争对手大学的学生（非共享小组成员）。研究对象被试的自我报告同情和愿意帮助被试，并采取3种自我-他人融合的测量方法。在每一个实验中，都发现了一种共情-帮助的关系，这种关系不符合小组成员资格，也不能用任何合并措施来解释。
Two experiments tested the idea that empathy-induced helping is due to self-other merging. To manipulate empathy, half of the participants in each experiment received instructions to remain objective while hearing about a young woman in need (low-empathy condition), and half received instructions to imagine her feelings (high-empathy condition). To check generality of the empathy-helping relationship, half in each empathy condition learned that the young woman was a student at their university (shared group membership), and half learned that she was a student at a rival university (unshared group membership). Self-reported empathy for and willingness to help the young woman were assessed, and 3 measures of self-other merging were taken. In each experiment, an empathy-helping relationship was found, unqualified by group membership, that could not be accounted for by any of the merging measures.