Empathy:

Peter Frost:

Atkins (2014) comes to several conclusions in his comparative review:

- When viewing a person suffering physical pain, British subjects report greater negative affect than do East Asian subjects.

- When viewing a person suffering social pain, British subjects show greater empathic concern but lower empathic accuracy than do East Asian subjects.

- British subjects report greater empathic concern, but lower empathic accuracy than do Chinese subjects. Emotional expressivity predicts British but not Chinese empathic concern.

- Empathic concern explains differences between the two groups in donating, a measure of prosocial behavior.