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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Decety J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4748844 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Empathy shapes the landscape of our social lives. It motivates prosocial and caregiving behaviors, plays a role in inhibiting aggression, and facilitates cooperation between members of a similar social group. Thus, empathy is often conceived as a driving motivation of moral behavior and justice, and as such, everyone would think that it should be cultivated. However, the relationships between empathy, morality, and justice are complex. We begin by explaining what the notion of empathy encompasse ...[more]