Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species

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The price of prosociality in pandemic times

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Effects of multicultural experiences on empathy: A model of the roles of positive emotion and critical thinking

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Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences

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Effects of Empathy and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on Difficulties and Strengths in Juvenile Offenders

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Understanding guilt-related interpersonal dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder through computational modeling of two social interaction tasks

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The relationship between attachment quality, empathy skills, and moral judgement in adolescents

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The association between empathy and artistic practice: a cross-sectional study with medical students

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Physical Cue Influences Children’s Empathy for Pain: The Role of Attention Allocation

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The Neurobehavioral Mechanisms Underlying Attitudes Toward People With Mental or Physical Illness

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Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females

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The Effect of Cognitive Strategies and Facial Attractiveness on Empathic Neural Responses

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The relationship between oxytocin and empathy for others’ pain: Testing the mediating effect of first-hand pain sensitivity

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Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective

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The Brain That Feels Into Others: Toward a Neuroscience of Empathy

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Embedded Evaluation Tools Effectively Measure Empathy for Animals in Children in Informal Learning Settings

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What makes us apes? The emotional building blocks of intersubjectivity in hominids

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Exploring the role of empathy in prolonged grief reactions to bereavement

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Neuroanatomical markers of social cognition in neglected adolescents

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The association between empathy and cyberbullying bystander positive intervention: a meta-analysis

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Co-imagining future scenarios can enhance environmental actors’ empathy toward future generations and non-human life-forms

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Is it a Match? Yawn Contagion and Smile Mimicry in Toddlers

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Eliciting empathetic drives to prosocial behavior during stressful events

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Why help others? Insights from rodent to human early childhood research

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Reframing neonatal care from an empathic care perspective

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The impact of acute violent videogame exposure on neurocognitive markers of empathic concern

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The convergence between defence and care in mammals

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Empathic pain: Underlying neural mechanism

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Family cohesion moderates the inverted U-shaped curve between resting RSA and children’s empathy

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Sibling Warmth, Self-Worth, and Empathy among Chinese Adolescents

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Questionnaire Measures of Empathy in Children: A Scoping Review

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Adolescent Substance Use Outcomes in Response to Social Consequences of Use: The Role of Empathy

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Spanish Validation of the Two-Factor Interpersonal Reactivity Index: Evidence for the Relationship Between Empathy, Social Competence, and Emotion Regulation

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Acetaminophen changes Mu rhythm power related to pain empathy

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Bullying Prevention: A Developmental, Public Health Framework Using Trauma-Informed and Strength-Based Approaches

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Disentangle psychopathic traits, self-construal and prosocial behaviours: A literature review

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Fluctuations and individual differences in empathy interact with stress to predict mental health, parenting, and relationship outcomes

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Cognitive empathy mediates the relationship between gray matter volume size of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and social network size: A voxel-based morphometry study

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Oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus and fear empathy among male mice

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A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others

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Neural Mechanisms of Parental Communicative Adjustments in Spoken Language

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Avian Social Relations, Social Cognition and Cooperation

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The experience of empathy in everyday life

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Neural control of sex differences in affiliative and prosocial behaviors

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Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties

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Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education

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Human caregiving under safety and threat: The role of empathy and its endocrine regulation

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Callousness, exploitativeness, and tracking of cooperation incentives in the human default network

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Empathy among autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The importance of informant effects

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In search of prosociality in rodents: A scoping review

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Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding

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Adolescents' Compassion is Distinctively Associated With More Prosocial and Less Aggressive Defending Against Bullying When Considering Empathic Emotions and Costs

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Introduction to the Special Section: Prosocial development in risky and vulnerable contexts

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Are empathic processes mechanisms of pregnancy's protective effect on smoking? Identification of a novel target for preventive intervention

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Interpersonal Intelligence

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Introspective self-narrative modulates the neuronal response during the emphatic process: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study

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Altruistic preferences of pre-service teachers: The mediating role of empathic concern and the moderating role of self-control

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Somatovisceral Influences on Emotional Development

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Facial Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli is Related to Empathic Concern, Empathic Distress, and Depressive Symptoms in Social Work Students

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Neural Network Excitation/Inhibition: A Key to Empathy and Empathy Impairment

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Neuronal and therapeutic perspectives on empathic pain: A rational insight

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Exploring the Neural Correlates in Adopting a Realistic View: A Neural Structural and Functional Connectivity Study With Female Nurses

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Assessing the contribution of callous–unemotional traits and affective empathy to aggressive behaviour among teenagers hosted in a youth protection centre

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Preschoolers’ executive function boots the development of empathy: one-year cross-lagged panel analysis

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A Mutualism, Affiliation and Status Seeking (MASS) Framework of Fundamental Affective Dynamics and Their Survival Benefits

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Performance Differences Between High and Low Empathy Ability in Conflicts of Interest: An ERP Study

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Neural Empathic Response to Disability: an ERP Study of Prejudice

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Positive parenting behaviors in women who spontaneously quit smoking during pregnancy: Clues to putative targets for preventive interventions

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Composants, mécanismes, développement et fonctions de l'empathie

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The Dark and Light Sides of Empathy: The Clinical Relevance of the Assessment of Cognitive and Affective Empathy Across Negative and Positive Emotions

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Mobilizing stewardship through theater: Pathways to transform polarizing conservation conflicts

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Influence of phylogenetic proximity on children’s empathy towards other species

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Empathy as a Wellness Driver in the Workplace

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Do They Know What They Are Doing? Cognitive Aspects of Rescue Behaviour Directed by Workers of the Red Wood Ant Formica polyctena to Nestmate Victims Entrapped in Artificial Snares

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Exploring the interactions between autistic traits, alexithymia and empathy: A network analysis

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