What is the connection between empathy and prosocial behavior?

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What is the connection between empathy and prosocial behavior?
Empirical research has shown that empathy positively predicts prosocial behavior and that the higher level of empathy, the greater attention to the feelings and needs of others, and the more engagement in prosocial behavior (Van et al., 2018; Lindsey and Madera

Considering what you learned about groups if you or someone you knew had a choice to be tried by either a judge or a jury, which would you choose, and why?