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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 7,
751-758 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167297237008
Perspective Taking: Imagining How Another Feels Versus Imaging How You Would Feel
C. Daniel Batson
University of Kansas, dbatson{at}lark.cc.ukans.edu
Shannon Early
University of Kansas
Giovanni Salvarani
University of Kansas
Although often confused, imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel are two distinct forms of perspective taking with different emotional consequences. The former evokes empathy; the latter, both empathy and distress. To test this claim, undergraduates listened to a (bogus) pilot radio interview with a young woman in serious need. One third were instructed to remain objective while listening; one third, to imagine how the young woman felt; and one third, to imagine how they would feel in her situation. The two imagine perspectives produced the predicted distinct pattern of emotions, suggesting different motivational consequences: Imagining how the other feels produced empathy, which has been found to evoke altruistic motivation; imagining how you would feel produced empathy, but it also produced personal distress, which has been found to evoke egoistic motivation.
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