The social neuroscience of empathy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Decety, Jean, 1960- (Editor), Ickes, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts. : MIT Press, 2009.
Series:Social neuroscience series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Seeking to Understand the Minds (and Brains) of People Who are Seeking to Understand Other People Minds / Jean Decety and William Ickes. Section 1. What Is Empathy?. Chapter 1 : These Things Called Empathy: Eight Related But Distinct Phenomena / C. Daniel Batson. Section 2. Social, Cognitive, and Developmental Perspectives on Empathy. Chapter 2 : Emotional Contagion and Empathy / Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson and Yen-Chi Le. Chapter 3 : Being imitated: Consequences of non-consciously showing empathy / Rick B. van Baaren, Jean Decety, Ap Dijksterhuis, Andries van der Leij and Matthijs L. van Leeuwen. Chapter 4 : Empathy and knowledge projection / Raymond S. Nickerson, Susan F. Butler and Michael Carlin. Chapter 5 : Empathic Accuracy: Its Links to Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, Social, and Physiological Psychology / William Ickes. Chapter 6 : Empathic Responding: Sympathy and Personal Distress / Nancy Eisenberg and Natalie D. Eggum. Chapter 7 : Empathy and Education / Norma Deitch Feshbach and Seymour Feshbach. Section 3. Clinical Perspectives on Empathy. Chapter 8 : Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory: A Way of Being / Jerold D. Bozarth. Chapter 9 : Empathy in Psychotherapy: Dialogue and Embodied Understanding / Mathias Dekeyser, Robert Elliott and Mia Leijssen. Chapter 10 : Empathic resonance: A neuroscience perspective / Jeanne C. Watson and Leslie S. Greenberg. Chapter 11 : Empathy, morality and social convention: Evidence from the study of psychopathy and other psychiatric disorders / R. J. R. Blair. Chapter 12 : Perceiving others in pain: Experimental and clinical evidence on the role of empathy / Liesbet Goubert, Kenneth D. Craig and Anne Buysse. Section 4. Evolutionary and Neuroscience Perspectives on Empathy. Chapter 13 : Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy / C. Sue Carter, James Harris and Stephen W. Porges. Chapter 14 : Mirror, mirror, in my mind: Empathy, interpersonal competence, and the mirror neuron system / Jennifer H. Pfeifer and Mirella Dapretto. Chapter 15 : Empathy versus personal distress â¿¿ recent evidence from social neuroscience / Jean Decety and Claus Lamm. Chapter 16 : Empathic processing: its cognitive and affective dimensions and neuroanatomical basis / Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory.