Withdrawal Motivation and Empathy: Do Empathic Reactions Reflect the Motivation to "Reach Out" or the Motivation to "Get Out"?
Evolutionary accounts of empathy often focus on the ways in which empathy-motivated helping can give rise to indirect fitness benefits. These accounts posit that empathy is adaptive insofar as it motivates strategic helping behavior, but they neglect a key feature of the empathic process – it can pr...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34949 |