The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
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Abstract
In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of how other people’s thoughts and feelings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In the chapters in this book, leading advocates of the multilevel approach view empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology, and cognitive/affective neuroscience. Chapters include a critical examination of the various definitions of the empathy construct; surveys of major research traditions based on these differing views (including empathy as emotional contagion, as the projection of one’s own thoughts and feelings, and as a fundamental aspect of social development); clinical and applied perspectives, including psychotherapy and the study of empathy for other people’s pain; various neuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy’s evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a special focus on neuroanatomical continuities and differences across the phylogenetic spectrum. The new discipline of social neuroscience bridges disciplines and levels of analysis.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: Seeking to Understand the Minds (and Brains) of People Who Are Seeking to Understand Other People’s Minds
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I What Is Empathy?
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II Social, Cognitive, and Developmental Perspectives on Empathy
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Emotional Contagion and Empathy
Elaine Hatfield and others
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Being Imitated: Consequences of Nonconsciously Showing Empathy
Rick B. van Baaren and others
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Empathy and Knowledge Projection
Raymond S. Nickerson and others
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Empathic Accuracy: Its Links to Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, Social, and Physiological Psychology
William Ickes
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Empathic Responding: Sympathy and Personal Distress
Nancy Eisenberg andNatalie D. Eggum
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Empathy and Education
Norma Deitch Feshbach andSeymour Feshbach
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Emotional Contagion and Empathy
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III Clinical Perspectives on Empathy
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Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory: A Way of Being
Jerold D. Bozarth
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Empathy in Psychotherapy: Dialogue and Embodied Understanding
Mathias Dekeyser and others
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Empathic Resonance: A Neuroscience Perspective
Jeanne C. Watson andLeslie S. Greenberg
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Empathy, Morality, and Social Convention: Evidence from the Study of Psychopathy and Other Psychiatric Disorders
R. J. R. Blair andKarina S. Blair
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Perceiving Others in Pain: Experimental and Clinical Evidence on the Role of Empathy
Liesbet Goubert and others
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Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory: A Way of Being
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IV Evolutionary and Neuroscience Perspectives on Empathy
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Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy
C. Sue Carter and others
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“Mirror, Mirror, in My Mind”: Empathy, Interpersonal Competence, and the Mirror Neuron System
Jennifer H. Pfeifer andMirella Dapretto
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Empathy versus Personal Distress: Recent Evidence from Social Neuroscience
Jean Decety andClaus Lamm
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Empathic Processing: Its Cognitive and Affective Dimensions and Neuroanatomical Basis
Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
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Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy
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End Matter
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