The current results provide an important first step in understanding the different cultural influences on empathic responding in a previously understudied population ‐ bicultural individuals.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Ego depletion and empathy: exploring self-regulatory resource depletion in hostage and crisis negotiators (2026) · doi

  , 2019; Galla & Duckworth, 2015), the extent to which empathic responding in crisis negotiators operates in this manner remains an open empirical question. While the findings raise the possibility that trained empathic responding may be relatively robust under conditions of reduced self-reg- ulatory capacity, further research is required before drawing conclusions for training or practice.

  Keywords: empathic responding galla duckworth extent crisis negotiators operates manner remains open empirical question raise possibility
• Empathy, Expectations, and Situational Preferences: Personality Influences on the Decision to Participate in Volunteer Helping Behaviors (1999) · doi

  Although considerable evidence indicates that dispositional empathy is associated with the degree of help that observers will offer needy targets, little is known about the effect of empathy on one's initial willingness to enter situations in which such needy targets might be found.

  Keywords: empathy needy targets considerable evidence indicates dispositional associated degree help observers offer little known effect
• The Role of Culture in Affective Empathy: Cultural and Bicultural Differences (2010) · doi

  The current results provide an important first step in understanding the different cultural influences on empathic responding in a previously understudied population ‐ bicultural individuals.

  Keywords: current provide important first step understanding different cultural influences empathic responding previously understudied population bicultural