Cameron, C. Daryl; Hutcherson, Cendri A.; Ferguson, … - 2016
Empathy is considered a virtue, yet fails in many situations, leading to a basic question: when given a choice, do … people avoid empathy? And if so, why? Whereas past work has focused on material and emotional costs of empathy, here we … examined whether people experience empathy as cognitively taxing and costly, leading them to avoid it. We developed the Empathy …