AUTHOR=Hagman William , Tinghög Gustav , Dickert Stephan , Slovic Paul , Västfjäll Daniel 

TITLE=Motivated Down-Regulation of Emotion and Compassion Collapse Revisited

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801150

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801150

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Compassion collapse is a phenomenon where feelings and helping behavior decrease as the number of needy increases. But what are the underlying mechanisms for compassion collapse? Previous research has attempted to pit two explanations: Limitations of the feeling system vs. motivated down-regulation of emotion, against each other. In this article, we critically reexamine a previous study comparing these two accounts published in 2011 and present new data that contest motivated down-regulation of emotion as the primary explanation for compassion collapse.</p>