Today's students scored significantly lower in empathic concern (a 48 percent decrease) and perspective taking (34 percent), considered the more important indices of empathy.
Empathic concern influenced intentions and behavior indirectly by its effects on behavioral, normative, and control beliefs.
In addition to the standard TPB constructs, the initial questionnaire assessed descriptive norms, moral norms, sex, and empathic concern.
Yet, evidence for secularization and declining empathic concern in recent decades suggests the possibility of systematic change in this attitude.
But if such perceptual and temporal immediacy make such differences (respectively) to empathic concern for others, it is arguable that causal immediacy does as well.
It's called empathic concern.
Empathic concern snuffs out selfishness.
That requires empathic concern, the third variety of empathy.
But the ethical dimension enters with the third kind, empathic concern.
When we perceive that others have a pressing need, we develop empathic concern.
The Dalai Lama poses a challenge to us when it comes to empathic concern: what he calls "universal compassion".
