ECON 1 Lecture 14:
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= capacity to share and become affectively aroused by others emotions: when highly empathetic: more readily aroused by others distress & own arousal then motivates rather than overwhelms the desire to alleviate the other s distress (automatic) = empathetic concern urge of caring for another s welfare integral for maintaining social relationships lack of empathetic concern diminishes aversion of harming others. 1. 3. 1 = perspective taking strategy for reducing group biases cognitively demanding. Concern & prosocial behaviour are modulated by the degree of affiliation & are extended preferentially toward in-group member rather than unaffiliated others. But humans often extend their concern to act pro-socially toward strangers this is correlated to the fact that humans have created a meta-level symbolic social structure for upholding moral principles to all humanity. = a set of causal links"" connecting three types of psychological process: intuition, judgment, and reasoning (fig. Private reflection"" link: allows one"s reasoning to influence one"s judgment by modifying one"s intuitions.
