Empathy affects tradeoffs between life's quality and duration
Fig 2
Results of Experiments 2 and 3.
A. Participants who took a suffering victim’s perspective expressed less desire to save that person’s life than those who considered the victim from a distance. B. Participants expressed lower preference to save the life of a victim who remained actively suffering at the time of decision than one who temporarily lost consciousness. Error bars represent SEM. *p < .05; **p < .01.