1. Motivated Down-Regulation of Emotion and Compassion Collapse Revisited
- Author
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Hagman, William, Tinghög, Gustav, Dickert, Stephan, Slovic, Paul, and Västfjäll, Daniel
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Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology) ,compassion ,emotion ,emotion regulation ,down-regulation ,charitable giving ,prosocial behavior ,Psykologi (exklusive tillämpad psykologi) ,Economics ,Nationalekonomi - Abstract
Compassion collapse is a phenomenon where feelings and helping behavior decrease as the number of needy increases. But what are the underlying mechanisms for compassion collapse? Previous research has attempted to pit two explanations: Limitations of the feeling system vs. motivated down-regulation of emotion, against each other. In this article, we critically reexamine a previous study comparing these two accounts published in 2011 and present new data that contest motivated down-regulation of emotion as the primary explanation for compassion collapse.
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- 2022