by Chris Reinders FolmerNovartis Foundation symposium Psychologists have proposed that empathy-related responding, including caring or sympathetic concern, motivates moral behavior, especially prosocial behaviour, inhibits aggression and other antisocial behaviours, and contributes to the broader domain of social competence (Eisenberg & Fabes 1998, Hoffman, 2000). Thus, psychologists have increasingly recognized the potential importance of empathy-related responding…
