The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
MIT Press
2009
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 0262012979, 9780262012973 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I What Is Empathy? -- 1 These Things Called Empathy -- II Social, Cognitive, and Developmental Perspectives on Empathy -- 2 Emotional Contagion and Empathy -- 3 Being Imitated -- 4 Empathy and Knowledge Projection -- 5 Empathic Accuracy -- 6 Empathic Responding -- 7 Empathy and Education -- III Clinical Perspectives on Empathy -- 8 Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory -- 9 Empathy in Psychotherapy -- 10 Empathic Resonance -- 11 Empathy, Morality, and Social Convention -- 12 Perceiving Others in Pain -- IV Evolutionary and Neuroscience Perspectives on Empathy -- 13 Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy -- 14 "Mirror, Mirror, in My Mind" -- 15 Empathy versus Personal Distress -- 16 Empathic Processing -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index