HOW SOCIAL AN ANIMAL - THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR CARING
HOW SOCIAL AN ANIMAL - THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR CARING
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DOI：
10.1037/0003-066x.45.3.336
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发表时间：
1990-03-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
BATSON, CD
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作者：
BATSON, CD
我们生活在一个社会竞技场。然而，在我们与他人的互动中，我们真的关心过他们吗？还是我们关心的真实的目标总是只关心我们自己？多年来，心理学，包括社会心理学，一直认为我们是社会利己主义者，只关心自己。今天，认知和社会心理学中的计算机类比忽略了我们完全关心的事实。最近支持移情-利他主义假说的证据提出了一个非常不同的观点。它表明，我们不仅关心，而且当我们对需要帮助的人感到同情时，我们有能力为他们而不是我们自己照顾他们。限制人类的利他关怀的能力进行了讨论。
We live in a social arena. Yet, in our interactions with others do we ever really care about them, or is the real target of our concern always, exclusively ourselves? For many years psychology, including social psychology, has assumed that we are social egoists, caring exclusively for ourselves. Today, the computer analogy that underlies so much thinking in cognitive and social psychology overlooks the fact that we care altogether. Recent evidence in support of the empathy-altruism hypothesis suggests a very different view. It suggests that not only do we care but also that when we feel empathy for others in need, we are capable of caring for them for their sakes and not our own. Limits on the human capacity for altruistic caring are discussed.