Fig. 1 Davis’s Organizational Model of Empathy
Antecedents
The Person
Biological Capacities
Individual Differences
Learning History
The Situation
Strength of Situation
Observer/Target Similarity
Processes
Noncognitive
Primary Circular Reaction
Motor Mimicry
Simple Cognitive
Classical Conditioning
Direct Association
Labelling
Advanced Cognitive
Language-mediated associations
Elaborated Cognitive Networks
Role Taking
Intrapersonal Outcomes
Affective Outcomes
Parallel
Reactive
empathic concern
anger
personal distress
Non-affective Outcomes
Interpersonal Accuracy
Attributional Judgments
Evaluative Judgments
Interpersonal Outcomes
Helping
Aggression
Social Behavior
Modeled on Figure 1.1: The organizational model (Davis 1994, 13).
Davis does not include “evaluative judgments” in the figure, though he does in the textual discussion of the model. I have added it here.