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Title The social neuroscience of empathy / edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations
Series Social neuroscience series
Social neuroscience series.
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
Analysis COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
NEUROSCIENCE/General
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Empathy.
Neurosciences.
Social psychology.
Empathy
Emotions -- physiology
Neurosciences
Neurosciences -- methods
Psychology, Social
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.
Form Electronic book
Author Decety, Jean.
Ickes, William John.
ISBN 9780262255295
0262255294
1282240161
9781282240162