Empathy and Compassion: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Empathy and Compassion: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
This chapter discusses the association between empathy and neural and psychological forces, as well as a cognitive neuroscience study that focuses on the relationship between empathy and distress detection and response. It looks at the identification of distress-related emotions, including disgust, pain, and fear via neurocognitive research, as well as the ability of an emotion such as fear to bring out compassionate empathic or concerned responses in a person. The chapter explores clinical disorders like psychopathy, which, according to research, is the result of an empathy deficit in a person. It presents the relationship between facial expression recognition and altruistic behavior through a series of studies, and concludes with the usefulness of fear cues in understanding the aspects of empathy.
Keywords: empathy, cognitive neuroscience, fear, neurocognitive research, facial expression, altruistic behavior
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