It's a challenge! Empathizing with sad but not with angry individuals results in cardiovascular reactivity consistent with a challenge motivational state.
It's a challenge! Empathizing with sad but not with angry individuals results in cardiovascular reactivity consistent with a challenge motivational state.
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这是一个挑战!
作者:
Sassenrath;Wagner;Keller;Sassenberg
The question of what feeling with another person elicits in the empathizing individual has instigated innumerable studies mainly focusing on the affective valence of empathy and the resulting consequences for prosocial behavior (cf. the empathy–altruism debate). The present research may contribute to this long-lasting debate by examining the cardiovascular reactivity of the empathizing individual. To that effect, the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1996) was applied and impedance cardiography was implemented while individuals were instructed to feel with a target person who reacted differently to a need-causing event (with anger vs. sadness). Thereby, it is possible to test whether empathizers process coping-related cues when feeling with a target person in need. Results of one experiment (N= 160 women) revealed that empathizing with a sad (vs. an angry) target results in cardiovascular reactivity consistent with relative challenge—an energy-mobilizing state associated with relatively high resources. These findings suggest that coping-related appraisal processes influence how the empathizing individual reacts in terms of cardiovascular reactivity. This, in turn, provides novel insights regarding the affective-motivational outcomes of empathy.
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2015
期刊:
Psychological Research
影响因子:
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作者:
Annika Scholl;K. Moeller;D. Scheepers;H. Nuerk;K. Sassenberg
通讯作者:
K. Sassenberg
影响因子:
8.2
作者:
Huang, Li;Galinsky, Adam D.;Guillory, Lucia E.
通讯作者:
Guillory, Lucia E.
DOI:
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发表时间:
2008
期刊:
影响因子:
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作者:
I. Beest;G. A. Kleef;E. Dijk
通讯作者:
E. Dijk
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Mark D. Seery;Cheryl L. Kondrak;Lindsey Streamer;Thomas L. Saltsman;Veronica M. Lamarche
通讯作者:
Veronica M. Lamarche
影响因子:
4.2
作者:
Fukushima, Hirokata;Hiraki, Kazuo
通讯作者:
Hiraki, Kazuo