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Empathy Experts:
Video and Links: Tania Singer
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Tania Singer |
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Psychology and Neuroscience - University of Zurich
Research investigates the foundations of human social behavior - social
and moral emotions such as empathy
Tania Singer and
her
team showed that a basis for empathy can be identified in the brain.
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The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and
Empathy pdf
The phenomenon of
empathy entails the ability to share the affective experiences of
others. In recent years social neuroscience made considerable progress
in revealing the mechanisms that enable a person to feel what another is
feeling. The present review provides an in-depth and critical discussion
of these findings./..
*Can we train people to become more empathic, and which processing level
(bottom-up or top-down) should be targeted in order for such a training
to be most effective and persistent? For example, is it more effective
to increase sensory awareness and low level affective sharing, or should
we develop emotion regulation strategies or positive compassionate
feelings to reduce personal distress and withdrawal behavior? How does
this interact with individual differences in trait empathy and related
concepts, and at what age(s) should training take place? Apparently, the
investigation of the latter questions requires large-scale longitudinal
studies which could have enormous implications for education and society
as a whole.
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