The authors hypothesized that people’s predictions of how other people feel in emotionally arousing situations are often based on people’s predictions of how they themselves would feel in those situations. Indeed, most participants in Study 1 reported predicting hungry hikers’ feelings by mentally trading places with them, imagining what their own feelings would be in …
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Nordgren, L. F., McDonnell, M. H. M., & Loewenstein, G. (2011). What constitutes torture? Psychological impediments to an objective evaluation of enhanced interrogation tactics.
Torture is prohibited by statutes worldwide, yet the legal definition of torture is almost invariably based on an inherently subjective judgment involving pain severity. In four experiments, we demonstrate that judgments of whether specific interrogation tactics constitute torture are subject to an empathy gap: People who are experiencing even a mild version of the specific …