{"id":213435,"date":"2025-05-07T05:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/humans-prefer-to-put-more-effort-into-empathizing-with-groups-than-with-individuals-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:28:40","slug":"humans-prefer-to-put-more-effort-into-empathizing-with-groups-than-with-individuals-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/humans-prefer-to-put-more-effort-into-empathizing-with-groups-than-with-individuals-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Humans prefer to put more effort into empathizing with groups than with individuals, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-prefer-to-put-more-effort-into-empathizing-with-groups-than-with-individuals-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes us care about others? Scientists studying empathy have found that people are more likely to choose to empathize with groups rather than individuals, even though they find empathizing equally difficult and uncomfortable in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists suggest that the sight of groups of people could offer more contextual information which helps people decide whether to empathize, and therefore increases the chances that they choose to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople\u2019s willingness to empathize is different depending on who the target is: a single individual or a group of people,\u201d said Dr. Hajdi Moche of Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, lead author of an article in Frontiers in Psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes us care about others? Scientists studying empathy have found that people are more likely to choose to empathize with groups rather than individuals, even though they find empathizing equally difficult and uncomfortable in both cases. The scientists suggest that the sight of groups of people could offer more contextual information which helps people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}