Compassion and the fundamental attribution error: A reply to Rolfe & Gardner

SummaryIn this reply to Rolfe & Gardner's critical discussion of my editorial I do two things. First, I describe the theoretical context of the Darley & Batson study. This is the situationist perspective in social psychology, which overlaps with the idea of the cognitive unconscious. Second, I defend my account of the Good Samaritan study against Rolfe & Gardner's criticisms.