Not Only the Miserable Receive Help: Empathy Promotes Prosocial Behaviour Toward the Happy

Two studies investigated how person- and situation-related information elicit empathy and subsequent prosocial behaviour. Results show that congruent information (for example, positive emotion after positive event) elicits more empathy than incongruent information (for example, negative emotion after positive event). The extent of prosocial behaviour was observed to be an additive effect of person- and situation-related information, with...