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Empathic concern drives costly altruism

Why do we self-sacrifice to help others in distress? Two competing theories have emerged, one suggesting that prosocial behavior is primarily motivated by feelings of empathic other-oriented concern, the other that we help mainly because we are egoistically focused on reducing our own discomfort. He...

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Autores principales: FeldmanHall, Oriel, Dalgleish, Tim, Evans, Davy, Mobbs, Dean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4275572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25462694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.043