Empathy is hard work: People choose to avoid empathy because of its cognitive costs

Empathy is considered a virtue, yet it fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: When given a choice, do people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here, we examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively tax...

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Published in:	Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 148; no. 6; p. 962
Main Authors:	Cameron, C Daryl, Hutcherson, Cendri A, Ferguson, Amanda M, Scheffer, Julian A, Hadjiandreou, Eliana, Inzlicht, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.06.2019
ISSN:	1939-2222, 1939-2222
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