| Literature DB >> 25486408 |
Sharee N Light1, Zachary D Moran2, Lena Swander2, Van Le2, Brandi Cage2, Cory Burghy2, Cecilia Westbrook2, Larry Greishar2, Richard J Davidson2.
Abstract
The relation between empathy subtypes and prosocial behavior was investigated in a sample of healthy adults. "Empathic concern" and "empathic happiness", defined as negative and positive vicarious emotion (respectively) combined with an other-oriented feeling of "goodwill" (i.e. a thought to do good to others/see others happy), were elicited in 68 adult participants who watched video clips extracted from the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Prosocial behavior was quantified via performance on a non-monetary altruistic decision-making task involving book selection and donation. Empathic concern and empathic happiness were measured via self-report (immediately following each video clip) and via facial electromyography recorded from corrugator (active during frowning) and zygomatic (active during smiling) facial regions. Facial electromyographic signs of (a) empathic concern (i.e. frowning) during sad video clips, and (b) empathic happiness (i.e. smiling) during happy video clips, predicted increased prosocial behavior in the form of increased goodwill-themed book selection/donation.Entities:
Keywords: Electromyography (EMG); Empathy; Prosocial behavior
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25486408 PMCID： PMC5104350 DOI： 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.11.015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Psychol ISSN： 0301-0511 Impact factor: 3.251