• Starts: People on the street talk about what is empathy?

• Then the Experts

• Frans De Waal

  • material care - response to offspring

    • spread from there.

    • what about whales.

  • ingroup origin

    • - survival of the group

  • starts with synchronization,

    •  copying and mimicry

    • understand your emotions

    • perspective - cognitive

• Mary Gordon

  • 1996 - Started Roots of Empathy

  • talking about feelings, intentions

  • emotional literacy skills

  • Obama got crucified about empathy

• Simon Baron-Cohen

  • what are others thinking and  feeling

  • empathy is an imaginative process

  • empathy can be taught - autism

  • reading the minds eye?

  • where does it come from.

  • a spectrum - lot to high

  • men and woman empathy

  • more testosterone - less empathy

  • when we hurt someone - we are losing our empathy

• Simone Shamay-Tsoor     http://sans.haifa.ac.il/  Understanding the neural basis of empathy.

  •  woman and empathy - Oxytocin?

    • babies

• Susan Young - clinical forensic psychologist - kings college london

  • Psychopathy

  • Tests

  • Victim empathy assessment test

  • 16:28 Simon Baron-Cohen - psychopathy

    • don't have the appropriate response

    • recognition from the response part of empathy

  • Psychopathy - directed the person to think about how the victim felt. the empathy increased

    • Can do interventions

    • Psychopathy is a scale - low to high

• 18:30 - Theodore Zeldin CBE  Historian

  • Society is based on fear of the other

  • protect yourself from the enemy

  • people want to be respected

  • people are dying to be understood

  • people want to change the law - but the laws are not applied

  • world is not changed by laws but by mentalities

  • Occupy

  • politicians don't understand mentalities

  • propaganda is the commercialization of empathy

  • believes in individuals talking to each other

  • how do you change mentalities - talking with others

• 23:30 - Reem Yahya  

  • Student at Haifa U - Jerusalem

  • Study - affective empathy

  • Empathy and the pain of the others Jews-Palestinians

  • pain studies - more empathy with ingroup

• 27:00 Simone Shamay-Tsoor

  • only way to win a conflict is by being self centered

• 28:00 - Kemal Pervanc

  • Bosnia war - we are all capable of killing

  • concentration camp prisoner -

  • wanting to rehumanize perpetrators

  • need a safe space to talk

  • forgiveness project

• 31:30 -  Mary Kayitesi Blewit OBE  - Survivors Fund

  • Rwanda Genocide

  • dehumanization

• 34:30 - Victorio Gallese

  •  About genocide - starts with dehumanization

  • need to first turn off the empathy - person is like you

• 36:00 Mel Slater - university of College London

  • bystander effect

  • level of intervention - ingroup out-group - crowd behavior

• 37:30 Simone Shamay-Tsoor

  • we experience empathy in every social interaction

  • what are people thinking, feeling, planning

  • neuroscience

  • empathy is emotional and cognitive (understanding)

  • about the brain and mirror neurons

  • mirroring

• 41:00 - Victorio Gallese

  • mirror neurons

  • born with imitation capacity

  • sticking out the tongue

• 42:00 - Michel Valstar - Intelligent behavior understanding group. Imperial College, London

  • Robots and AI

  • robots reflect facial expressions

• 45:30 - Jeremy Rifkin

  • The Future

  • global empathy

  • efficiency  vr empathy

• 47:40 Frans De Waal

  • evolution self serving

  • Empathy -

  • we can adjust to urban life

• 49:00 Theodore Zeldin CBE  Historian

  • concentration of wealth

  • start with individual human

• Jeremy Rifkin

  • top down giving way

• Simone Shamay-Tsoor

  • maybe the social climate is now open to how to promote empathy

  • how t

• Mary Gordon

  • emotional literacy allows us to connect to one another

  • if we don't lean how to relate we are a failed society

• 51:00 END

Empathy, Instinct and Ethics