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Social psychology

the proposal that empathic people help in order to share the pleasure of seeing a victim's relief, rather than out of selfless concern alone.

In social psychology, empathic joy hypothesis refers to the proposal that empathic people help in order to share the pleasure of seeing a victim's relief, rather than out of selfless concern alone. This meaning comes from Smith (1989) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Smith, K. D., Keating, J. P., & Stotland, E. (1989). Altruism reconsidered: The effect of denying feedback on a victim's status to empathic witnesses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57(4), 641-650. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.57.4.641

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