I think empathy is one of the most important contributing causes of people doing good. Merriam Webster defines empathy as "The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of another of either the past of present without having the feelings thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner, also: the capacity for this.Researchers in empathy, Eisenberg & Fabes, (1990) defines empathy as “an affective response that stems from the apprehension or comprehension of another’s emotional state or condition, and that is similar to what the other person is feeling or would be expected to feel.”
Merriam Webster;
Eisenberg, N., & Fabes, R.A. (1990). Empathy: conceptualization, measurement, and relation to prosocial behavior. Motivation and Emotion, 14, 131-149.
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