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<p>Empathy and prosocial behavior are widely viewed as important components of social glue, enabling us to form and maintain long-term social bonds and benefit others. Here, we aimed to explore the role of multimodal empathy (trait empathy and state empathy) in intuitive helping behavior by integrating the emergency of event. In two lab-based experiments (total <i>N</i> = 213), we tested the association between cognitive mode and helping behavior, as well as the potential role of emergency and multimodal empathy. The results suggested that the association between cognitive mode and helping behavior was complex and multifaceted, and it tended to vary depending on the emergency and the combination of empathic dimensions. State empathic concern, but not state personal distress mediated the effect of trait empathy on helping behavior in non-emergency situations, and this effect was observed only in the intuition condition. Our findings shed light on the link between multimodal empathy, cognitive modes, and prosocial behavior, and extend our understanding of the social heuristics hypothesis.</p>

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Do empathic persons respond automatically? Multimodal empathy and spontaneous helping behavior

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年1月2日

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  • Rong Shi,
  • Tian Ye,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Shaozhen Feng,
  • Qian Zhang

摘要

Empathy and prosocial behavior are widely viewed as important components of social glue, enabling us to form and maintain long-term social bonds and benefit others. Here, we aimed to explore the role of multimodal empathy (trait empathy and state empathy) in intuitive helping behavior by integrating the emergency of event. In two lab-based experiments (total N = 213), we tested the association between cognitive mode and helping behavior, as well as the potential role of emergency and multimodal empathy. The results suggested that the association between cognitive mode and helping behavior was complex and multifaceted, and it tended to vary depending on the emergency and the combination of empathic dimensions. State empathic concern, but not state personal distress mediated the effect of trait empathy on helping behavior in non-emergency situations, and this effect was observed only in the intuition condition. Our findings shed light on the link between multimodal empathy, cognitive modes, and prosocial behavior, and extend our understanding of the social heuristics hypothesis.