`Sympathy' or `empathy'?

Empathy, sympathy, and tax compliance

This paper examines the effect of ‘‘empathy’’ and ‘‘sympathy’’ on tax compliance. We run a series of laboratory experiments in which we observe the subjects’ decisions in a series of one-shot Tax Compliance Games presented at once and with no immediate feedback. Importantly, we employ methods to identify subjects’ sympathy, such as the Davis Empathic Concern Scale and questions about frequency ...

THE ADOLESCENT MEAUSRE OF EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY Development of the Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES)

Rewriting a “Delicacy of Empathy”: Hume’s Many Meanings of “Sympathy”

Page 1 of 17 © Lou Agosta, Ph.D. [email protected] By “sympathy” Hume does not mean the particular sentiments of pity or compassion or benevolence but rather the function of communicating affect in general. Sympathy reverses the operation of the understanding, which converts impressions of sensation into ideas. In the case of sympathy, the operation is in the other direction. Sympathy arouse...

Sympathy or Brass Tacks

as A regional social worker for the Spastics Society I am increasingly aware of the diversity of my clients' needs, their dependence for facilities on specific geographical areas and the way local authorities interpret the statutory provisions. The knowledge that spasticity is irreversible makes an immediate impact. However I try I know I cannot change the status quo and this is the premise on ...

Sympathy , Empathy , and the Evolution of Darwin ’ S Moral Sense

Dark portents of civil war were looming at the very time Walt Whitman celebrated the transformative song of empathy. “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels,” he wrote in his 1855 book Leaves of Grass, “I myself become the wounded person.” The ensuing battle over slavery, an institution that Charles Darwin called “the greatest curse on Earth,” would seem an unlikely place to find hope in ...