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DOI	10.1037/pspi0000165
	Compassion Magnifies Third-Party Punishment
	Pfattheicher, Stefan; Sassenrath, Claudia; Keller, Johannes
通讯作者	Pfattheicher, S (corresponding author), Aarhus Univ, Dept Psychol & Behav Sci, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	0022-3514
EISSN	1939-1315
出版年	2019
卷号	117 期号:1 页码:124-141
英文摘要	The last decades of research have provided overwhelming evidence that compassion fosters a vast range of behaviors toward reducing suffering of others. In this regard, compassion has been described as a prosocial tendency par excellence, fostering helping behavior across a variety of social situations. With the present contribution, we apply a differentiated perspective on compassion. Building on just deserts theory, we argue that when other individuals suffer from unjust actions, compassion for the suffering individuals can foster harmful tendencies toward those who caused the suffering (i.e., third-party punishment). In Studies la to If, we examined a rich variety of situations in which unjust suffering occurs (i.e., terrorist attacks, sexual assaults, rape of children, and war) and documented a positive relation between compassion for suffering victims and punishment inclinations toward those who caused the suffering. Applying an experimental approach using various paradigms in Studies 2 through 6, compassion was shown to increase third-party punishment. Additional analyses revealed that (a) this increase occurs because compassion intensified moral outrage, which in turn predicted third-party punishment (Studies 2 to 6), and (b) compassion only fosters third-party punishment when suffering was caused by high (vs. low) unjust acts (Study 5). Overall, the present research discusses compassion in a different light in that harmful consequences of compassion are considered. Implications are discussed from a perspective of basic research on compassion and third-party punishment as well as from a societal perspective.
英文关键词	compassion empathy harm injustice third-party punishment
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000472154600006
WOS关键词	EMPATHY-INDUCED ALTRUISM ; TABOO TRADE-OFFS ; JUSTICE SENSITIVITY ; EMOTION REGULATION ; STIGMATIZED GROUP ; MORAL OUTRAGE ; SELF ; OTHERS ; ANGER ; HELP
WOS类目	Psychology, Social
WOS研究方向	Psychology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/369387
作者单位	[Pfattheicher, Stefan] Aarhus Univ, Dept Psychol & Behav Sci, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; [Pfattheicher, Stefan; Sassenrath, Claudia; Keller, Johannes] Ulm Univ, Dept Social Psychol, Ulm, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pfattheicher, Stefan,Sassenrath, Claudia,Keller, Johannes. Compassion Magnifies Third-Party Punishment[J],2019,117(1):124-141.
APA	Pfattheicher, Stefan,Sassenrath, Claudia,&Keller, Johannes.(2019).Compassion Magnifies Third-Party Punishment.JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY,117(1),124-141.
MLA	Pfattheicher, Stefan,et al."Compassion Magnifies Third-Party Punishment".JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 117.1(2019):124-141.