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- Title
Motivating empathy.
- Authors
Spaulding, Shannon
- Abstract
Critics of empathy argue that empathy is exhausting, easily manipulated, exacerbates rather than relieves conflict, and is too focused on individual experiences. Apparently, empathy not only fails to stop negative acts like sadism, bullying, and terrorism, it motivates and promotes such acts. These scholars argue that empathy will not save us from partisanship and division. In fact, it might make us worse off. I will argue that empathy exhibits bias in the ways critics describe because empathy is motivated. Conceiving of empathy as motivated leads to surprising conclusions about our tools for moral decision‐making.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; MOTIVATION (Psychology); SADISM; PARTISANSHIP; BULLYING; TERRORISM
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2024, Vol 39, Issue 2, p220
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12469