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Reasoning and empathy are not competing but complementary features of altruism
2025-05-01
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<p>Humans can care about distant strangers, an adaptive advantage that enables our species to cooperate in increasingly large-scale groups. Theoretical frameworks accounting for an expansive moral circle and altruistic behavior are often framed as a dichotomy between competing pathways of emotion-driven empathy versus logic-driven reasoning. Here, in a pre-registered investigation comparing variations in empathy a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a6deeeb1-fde5-5d0d-972d-08c3fe4ae758
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/jm8gk_v2