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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Social neuroscience seriesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255295
  • 0262255294
  • 1282240161
  • 9781282240162
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social neuroscience of empathy.DDC classification:
  • 155.2/32 22
LOC classification:
  • BF575.E55 S63 2009eb
NLM classification:
  • 2010 C-102
  • BF 575.E55
Other classification:
  • 77.62
  • CV 3000
  • CV 8000
  • ST 670
  • 5,2
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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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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