From the principle of least effort to the principle of least caring
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El evento 'From the principle of least effort to the principle of least caring' finalizó el 09-Nov-2017.
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In a science with
very few principles and laws, psychology has offered the principle of least
effort: Given a choice between similarly rewarding options, organisms avoid
options that require more work or effort. Simply put, effort is costly, and
organisms will devalue rewards because of it. Here, I ask whether a basic facet
of social cognition—namely empathically feeling what others feel—is effortful
and whether people generally avoid it (all else being equal). We develop a new
measure of empathy choice called the Empathy Selection Task, where participants
make a series of binary choices between situations that involve active empathy
or alternative courses of action. The
task allows participants to make free choices about which kinds of
situations—empathic or non-empathic—they prefer. Across many studies (N = 2,374) we find
strong evidence for empathy avoidance, which is associated with perceiving
empathy as effortful, aversive, and inefficacious. Further, people avoid
empathy for negative and positive states, and this effect is not reducible to
emotion avoidance more generally. Empathy avoidance is moderated by the
identity of the empathy target (i.e., stranger vs. loved one), consistent with
the notion that people will empathize when sufficiently incentivized. These
results qualify strong claims that empathy is a default and suggest that when
given the choice to feel empathy, people often prefer not to.
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