The social neuroscience of empathy

The social neuroscience of empathy / edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes.

In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. This text collects cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinincal psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Decety, Jean, Ickes, William John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Series:Social neuroscience series.
Subjects:
Empathy.
Neurosciences.
Social psychology.
empathy.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Empathy
Neurosciences
Social psychology
Einfühlung
Neurowissenschaften
Sozialpsychologie
Empathie > Neurologie.
Neurologie > Empathie.
Sozialpsychologie > Empathie.
Empathie > Sozialpsychologie.
Neurobiologie.
Sozialpsychologie.
Neuropsychologie.
Einfühlung.
Empati.
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Table of Contents:
  • These things called empathy: eight related but distinct phenomena / Daniel Batson
  • Emotional contagion and empathy / Elaine Hatfield et al.
  • Being imitated: consequences of nonconsciously showing empathy / Rick B. van Baaren et al.
  • Empathy and knowledge projection / Raymond S. Nickerson et al.
  • Empathic accuracy: its links to clinical, cognitive, developmental, social, and physiological psychology / William Ickes
  • Empathic responding: sympathy and personal distress / Nancy Eisenberg and Natalie D. Eggum
  • Empathy and education / Norma Deitch Feshbach and Seymour Feshbach
  • Rogerian empathy in an organismic theory: a way of being / Jerold D. Bozarth
  • Empathy in psychotherapy: dialogue and embodied understanding / Mathias Dekeyser et al.
  • Empathic resonance: a neuroschience perspective / Jeanne C. Watson and Leslie S. Greenberg
  • Empathy, morality, and social convention: evidence from the study of psychopathy and other psychiatric disorders / R.J.R. Blair and Karina S. Blair
  • Perceiving others in pain: experimental and clinical evidence on the role of empathy / Liesbet Goubert et al.
  • Neural and evolutionary perspectives on empathy / C. Sue Carter et al.
  • "Mirror, mirror, in my mind": empathy, interpersonal competence, and the mirror neuron system / Jennifer H. Pfeifer and Mirella Dapretto
  • Empathy versus personal distress: recent evidence from social neuroscience / Jean Decety and Claus Lamm
  • Empathic processing: its cognitive and affective dimensions and neuroanatomical basis / Simon G. Shamay-Tsoory.

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