Updated January 1, 2009
The Swedish Empathy Center recommends the following articles by C. D. Batson:
· Batson, C. D. (1997). Self-other merging and the empathy-altruism hypothesis: Reply to Neuberg et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 517-
522.
· Batson, C. D., & Ahmad, N. (2001). Empathy-induced altruism in a prisoner’s dilemma II: What if the target of empathy has defected? European Journal of
Psychology, 31, 25-36.
· Batson, C. D., Ahmad, N., Yin, J., Bedell, S. J., Johnson, J. W., Templin, C. M., & Whiteside, A. (1999). Two threats to the common good: Self-interested
egoism and empathy induced altruism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 3-16.
· Batson, C. D., Batson, J. G., Griffitt, S. B., Barrientos, S., Brandt, J. R., Sprengelmeyer, P., & Bayly, M. J. (1989). Negative-state relief and the empathy
altruism hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 922-933.
· Batson, C. D., Batson, J. G., Slingsby, J. K., Harrell, K. L., Peekna, H. M., & Todd, R. M. (1991). Empathic joy and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 413-426.
· Batson, C. D., Batson, J. G., Todd, M., Brummett, B. H., Shaw, L. L., & Aldeguer, M. R. (1995). Empathy and the collective good: Caring for one of the others
in a social dilemma. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 619-631.
· Batson, C. D., Chang, J., Orr, R., & Rowland, J. (2002). Empathy, attitudes, and action: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group motivate one to
help the group? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1656-1666.
· Batson, C. D., Coke, J. S., & Pych, V. (1983). Limits on the two-stage model of empathic mediation of helping: A reply to Archer, Diaz-Loving, Gollwitzer,
Davis and Foushee. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 895-898.
· Batson, C. D., Duncan, B. D., Ackerman, P., Buckley, T., & Birch, K. (1981). Is empathic emotion a source of altruistic motivation? Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 40, 290-302.
· Batson, C. D., Dyck, J. L., Brandt, J. R., Batson, J. G., Powell, A. L., Mcmaster, M. R., & Griffitt, C. (1988). Five studies testing two new egoistic alternatives
to the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 52-77.
· Batson, C. D., Early, S., & Salvarani, G. (1997). Perspective taking: Imagining how another feels versus how you would feel. Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin, 22, 751-758.
· Batson, C. D., Fultz, J. & Schoenrade, P. A. (1987). Distress and empathy: Two qualitatively distinct vicarious emotions with different motivational
consequences. Journal of Personality, 55, 19-39.
· Batson, C. D., Håkansson Eklund, J., Chermok, V. L., Hoyt, J. L., & Ortiz, B. G. (2007). An additional antecedent of empathic concern: Valuing the welfare of
the person in need. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 65-74.
· Batson, C. D, Klein, T. R., Highberger, L., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Immorality from empathy-induced altruism: When compassion and justice conflict. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 1042-1054.
· Batson, C. D., Lishner, D. A., Cook, J., & Sawyer, S. (2005). Similarity and nurturance: Two possible sources of empathy for strangers. Basic and Applied
Social Psychology, 27, 15-25.
· Batson, C. D., & Moran, T. (1999). Empathy-induced altruism in a prisoner’s dilemma. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 909-924.
· Batson, C. D., O’Quin, K., Fultz, J., Vanderplas, M., & Isen, A. M. (1983). Self-reported distress and the empathy and egoistic versus altruistic motivation for
helping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 706-718.
· Batson, C. D., Polycarpou, M. P., Harmon-Jones, E., Imhoff, H. J., Mitchener, E. C., Bednar, L. L., Klein, T. R., & Highberger, L. (1997). Empathy and
attitudes: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group improve feelings toward the group? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 105-118.
· Batson, C. D., Sager, K., Garst, E., Kang, M., Rubchinsky, K., & Dawson, K. (1997). Is empathy due to self-other merging? Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 73, 495-509.
· Batson, C. D., Sympson, S. C., Hindman, J. L., Decruz, P., Todd, R. M., Weeks, J. L., Jennings, G., & Burris, C. T. (1996). “I’ve been there too”: Effect on
empathy of prior experience with a need. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 474-482.
· Batson, C. D., Turk, C. L., Shaw, L. L., & Klein, T. R. (1995). Information function of empathic emotion: Learning that we value the other’s welfare. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 300-313.
· Batson, C. D, & Weeks, J. L. (1996). Mood effects of unsuccessful helping: Another test of the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 22, 148-157.
· Coke, J. S., Batson, C. D., & McDavis, K. (1978). Empathic mediation of helping: A two-stage model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 752-
766.
· Decety, J., & Batson, C. D. (2007). Social neuroscience approaches to interpersonal sensitivity. Social Neuroscience, 2, 151-157.
· Fultz, J., Batson, C. D., Fortenbach, V. A., McCarthy, P. M., & Varney, L. L. (1986). Social evaluation and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 761-769.
· Lamm, C., Batson, C. D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.
· Matthews, K. A., Batson, C. D., Horn, J., & Rosenman, R. H. (1981). "Principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others...": Heratibility of
empathic concern for others. Journal of Personality, 49, 237-247.
· Shaw, L. L., Batson, C. D., & Todd, R. M. (1994). Empathy avoidance: Forestalling feeling for another in order to escape the motivational consequences.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 879-887.
· Toi, M., & Batson, C. D. (1982). More evidence that empathy is a source of altruistic motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 281-292.