Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Artinger F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3990498 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20140417 4
Abundant evidence across the behavioral and social sciences suggests that there are substantial individual differences in pro-social behavior. However, little is known about the psychological mechanisms that underlie social preferences. This paper investigates whether empathy and Theory of Mind shape individual differences in pro-social behavior as conventionally observed in neutrally framed social science experiments. Our results show that individual differences in the capacity for empathy do n ...[more]