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From: The behavioral and neural basis of empathic blame

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Empathy is for the victims of harm, not the agent. Boxplots with jittered data-points represent participants’ trial-by-trial ratings for empathy (affective sharing, i.e.) and compassion questions revealed that they empathized with and felt compassion for the victim, and not the agent, of the third-party dyad. Participants did report that they felt some empathy and compassion for agents involved in accidental harms.

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