Comments on: People Prefer to Empathize With Groups Over Individuals https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-group-individual-28849/ Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences. Fri, 09 May 2025 13:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: INDIRA BIEL https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-group-individual-28849/#comment-96762 Fri, 09 May 2025 13:29:10 +0000 https://neurosciencenews.com/?p=109638#comment-96762 Empathy can also be ‘cultural’ where children observe behavior of the older people who influence their lives.
It is a form of tolerance accompanied in some cases by a form of altruism. Many of these concepts are outmoded in an individualistic society where competition is more important than compassion, winning over losing, and self affirmation over consideration and cooperation…”building walls than bridges”.
Empathy can thus be developed like any other sentiment if educated to do so.Then the question of ‘groups’ versus individuals would only have relative significance.

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