Does mental simulation decrease the empathy gap in help-seeking?
Does mental simulation decrease the empathy gap in help-seeking?
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心理模拟是否会减少寻求帮助时的同理心差距？
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10.1111/jpr.12436
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发表时间：
2022
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Furuhashi;K. & Igarashi;T.
当人们认为帮助他人的代价很高时，他们会犹豫是否寻求帮助。一般来说，寻求帮助者高估了帮助的成本，因为他们在视角选择上犯了错误。我们研究了心理模拟的三个过程（回忆提供帮助的经历，拒绝帮助请求的经历，以及感知共情差距的经历）是否会降低寻求帮助者感知的帮助成本。参与者经历了一个模拟或没有模拟（控制条件），阅读了两个描述帮助和寻求帮助的场景，并对场景中的帮助成本进行了评估。与预测相反，模拟并没有降低寻求帮助者所感知的帮助成本。回忆拒绝请求的经历也增加了在失业情况下帮助的感知成本。对抑郁情景中抑郁情绪控制的事后分析表明，在移情差距模拟条件下，从帮助者的角度来看，帮助的成本降低了，而从寻求帮助者的角度来看，帮助的成本保持不变。这些结果表明，意识到帮助者和寻求帮助者之间的不对称性可能会在寻求帮助时适得其反，并扩大共情差距。
People hesitate to seek help when they perceive the cost of helping as high. In general, help‐seekers overestimate the cost of helping because of errors in perspective‐taking. We examined whether three processes of mental simulation (recalling an experience of providing help, of rejecting a request for help, and of sensing the empathy gap) would decrease the cost of helping perceived by help‐seekers. Participants underwent one of the simulations or no simulation (control condition), read two scenarios that described helping and help‐seeking, and rated the perceived cost of helping in the scenarios. Contrary to the prediction, simulations did not decrease the cost of helping perceived by help‐seekers. Recalling an experience of rejecting requests also increased the perceived cost of helping in unemployment scenarios. The post hoc analysis for controlling the depressive mood in depression scenarios showed that the cost of helping from the helper's perspective decreased, whereas that from the help‐seekers remained the same under the empathy‐gap simulation condition. These results suggest that realizing the asymmetry between helpers and help‐seekers may be counterproductive in help‐seeking and widen the empathy gap.