Incidental fear reduces empathy for an out-group’s pain.

Richins, Matt T; Barreto, Manuela; Karl, Anke; Lawrence, Natalia

doi:10.1037/emo0000714

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“…Concomitantly, empathy constructs did not play a predictive role in the stigma factors of the dangerousness model in the present study. This is in line with previous studies which specified that one of the main factors influencing empathy and its role in promoting prosocial behaviors is the perception of other people as threatening (Richins et al, 2021). When an individual is confronted to an impending or perceived threat, emotion of fear will be triggered and motivate self-protecting reactions (i.e., fight or flight response; Nabi, 2003).…”

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Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Saguem¹,

Rhouma²,

Nakhli³

2022

Stigma and Health

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The study aimed to assess stigmatizing attitudes, affects, and behavioral intentions toward patients with mental illness in mental health trainees and to address the relationship between these stigmatizing factors and empathic abilities. A correlational cross-sectional study was conducted. A survey was sent to mental health trainees. It comprised the Attribution Questionnaire assessing nine stigma-related attitudes, affects, and behavioral intentions and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index evaluating self-oriented and other-oriented cognitive and affective empathy dimensions. The sample included 160 mental health trainees. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that mental health trainees' empathic abilities were independent predictors of anger, pity, help, and segregation. Participants with stronger perspective-taking were more likely to endorse helping, and those with stronger empathic concern reported less anger, more pity, more helping intentions, and were less likely to endorse segregation. Participants with higher personal distress scores reported more anger toward patients with mental illness. These results shed light to the role-played by empathy dimensions in predicting stigma factors of the responsibility model. Other-oriented cognitive and affective empathy were associated with positive attitudes and less discrimination toward patients with mental illness. Personal distress, a self-oriented affective empathy dimension, was a positive predictor of anger. Promoting mental health trainees' empathic abilities may positively impact their stigmatizing attitudes toward patients with mental illness.

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confidence: 93%

Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Saguem¹,

Rhouma²,

Nakhli³

2022

Stigma and Health

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“…Literature in psychosocial sciences has shown that stress [9] , fear [10] , or emergency [11] influence human relationships; research shows that the sense of belonging to the group and the contact with others’ emotions [12] play a central role in reducing these risks [13] . Studies suggest that workplaces aiming to increase job satisfaction can do so, through well-organized gratitude interventions [14] .…”

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A radiotherapy staff experience of gratitude during COVID-19 pandemic

Marconi¹,

Chiesa²,

Dinapoli³

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Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncolo

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“…Along with other conditions such as stress and competition, fear tends to diminish empathy (Crawford 2014). Even incidental fear (random fearful imaginary) negatively affects empathy toward out-group suffering (Richins et al 2019). Explicit competition among groups (about, for example, access to jobs or healthcare) can even create counter-empathic reactions.…”

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Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis

Salgado

2021

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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The European Union's decision-making process has mostly been pictured as a technocratic and consensual process with little or no place for the logics of passion. The reform of the Dublin System in the wake of the refugee crisis (2015-16) has been analyzed from different angles but not from a political psychology perspective in which emotions are fully taken into account. Crises are often seen as a window of opportunity because key players engage in a strategic process of sense-making. This article explores the role of emotions in this process: to what extent do emotionsseen via crisis-framing processescontribute to the understanding of the reform of the Dublin System? To this purpose, I show first how emotions are related to crisis-framing efforts. Second, I discuss how the study of emotions contributes to the understanding of decision-making processes. I carry out a criticalframe analysis illustrated by a systematic qualitative content analysis of primary documentation. Data include European Parliament debates on the topic of the refugee crisis (covering also the points of view of the Commission and the Council), and policy documents and speeches by the main actors in the decisionmaking process, including relevant member states and non-governmental organizations.

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Incidental fear reduces empathy for an out-group’s pain.

Cited by 9 publications

References 56 publications

Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

Stigma of mental illness and its association with empathic abilities in mental health trainees.

A radiotherapy staff experience of gratitude during COVID-19 pandemic

Emotions in the European Union's decision-making: the reform of the Dublin System in the context of the refugee crisis

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