Among the identified motives for giving, empathy is an important factor encompassing emotional and rational aspects influencing prosocial behavior. Psychologists have defined empathy in diverse ways, but these definitions can be broadly divided into two groups, addressing affective and cognitive dimensions, respectively. Empathy is the “affective reaction to another person’s emotional experience” or “the cognitive awareness of another person’s internal states, that is, his thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and intentions”.