empathic concern

collocation in English

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empathetic
adjective
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/ˌem.pəˈθet.ɪk/us
/ˌem.pəˈθet̬.ɪk/
having the ability to imagine how someone ...
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concern
noun
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/kənˈsɜːn/us
/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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Deficiencies inempathicconcernmay be a major factor in the intergenerational transmission of mental illness, as impaired children become ineffective parents.
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A child who never develops the capacity forempathicconcernmay become an ineffective parent, such that developmental psychopathology propagates across generations.
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We will outline one approach to an evolutionary theory in which attachment andempathicconcernare elaborated from elemental controls on bodily integrity, mediated through the perception of pain.
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These situations can be viewed as interpersonal stressors likely to call for caring actions, friendliness, and tender emotions such as sympathy and sadness (a common feature ofempathicconcern).
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Given the importance ofempathicconcernin society, the lack of insight into empathy and its deficiencies may be a significant shortcoming of scientific research and theory in developmental psychopathology.
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Because many occasions calling forempathicconcerninvolve pain experienced by the other person, we can infer that the child's sympathetic response engages his or her own pain evaluative networks.
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Sympathy orempathicconcernis the feeling of compassion or concern for another, the wish to see them better off or happier.
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Evidence does not support the hypothesis that sadness accounts for the effects ofempathicconcernon helping.
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Feelings ofempathicconcernare contrasted with feelings of personal distress, which compel people to reduce their own unpleasant emotions.
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Measurements of bothempathicconcernand sadness uncovered the systematic relationship towards helping behavior.
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Empathicconcernis often and wrongly confused with empathy.
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However, a witness with a high level ofempathicconcernis likely to assume personal responsibility entirely regardless of the number of bystanders.
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The ability to experience vicarious emotion, or imagining how another person feels, is integral forempathicconcern.
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Also, both perspective-taking instructions differed from the detached perspective by resulting in higherempathicconcern.
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The key ingredient to helping isempathicconcern.
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Empathicconcernor sympathy not only include empathizing, but also entails having a positive regard or a non-fleeting concern for the other person.
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This would allow for a stronger sadness-based motivation to obscure the effects of anempathicconcern-based altruistic motivation.
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Fourth,empathicconcernis other-oriented in the sense that it involves feeling "for" the other -- feeling sympathy for, compassion for, sorry for, distressed for, concerned for, and so on.
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Thisempathicconcernis driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need.
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The conditions necessary to develop empathic concerns, and later sympathy, begin with the creation of a small group of socially dependent individuals.
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