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This is a growing list of 'experts' in the area
of empathy. I would like to interview as many of these experts as possible for
my documentary. These are people that are doing academic, social and scientific
work or have written books, etc. on the theme. The real experts are, of course,
the people in every day life that manifest empathy in their personal lives.
Let me
know if there's someone I should add. Also, who is the most empathic person
you know, I'd like to interview them.
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Scientists, Mirror
Neurons, Psychology
Oxytocin
Business
Medicine
Psychology
Environment and Nature
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) -
Compassionate Communication
Education
Humanities - Politics
Literature
Philosophy
Law - Justice
Empaths
Artists
Autism
Anti Empathy
or Personality Disorders: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Psychopathy, etv
Self-Empathy and Self-Compassion
Compassion
In History
Others -
Search
Academia.edu
- Empathy research interest
Interview Series
Academic Research
Centers Studying Empathy
Scientists, Mirror Neurons,
Psychology
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Mark Davis |
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Professor
Psychology, Eckerd College
Multidimensional approach to empathy
Studying empathy, helping behavior, and interpersonal conflict.
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Adrian Raine |
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Professor of
Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program,
University of Southern California.
Was interviewed in documentary on the Brain on psychopaths having no
empathy |
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Kent A. Kiehl |
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Psychology
Faculty, University of New Mexico
Was interviewed in documentary on the Brain on psychopaths having no
empathy.
Clinical neuroscience of major mental illnesses, with special focus on
criminal psychopathy. |
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Emile Bruneau |
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Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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AT MIT, Research on the psychological biases that exist between members of
conflict groups using behavioral measures and functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI). |
Oxytocin receptor
genetic variation relates to empathy and stress
Sciencedaily -
Proceedings National Academy of Sciences
(PNAS)
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Sarina
Rodrigues |
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Assistant
Professor, Oregon State, Psychology Dept.
Oxytocin Study
Greater Good Science Center
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Oliver P. John |
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UC
Berkeley
Greater Good Science Center
Oxytocin Study |
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Natalia Garcia |
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UC Berkeley
Greater Good Science Center
Oxytocin Study |
Business
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Tom
Ward |
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Author:
The Empathy Effect: Build Your Business-and Your Wealth- By Putting
Yourself in Other People’s Shoes
The ability to put yourself in other people's shoes is an extremely
valuable resource. Empathy minimizes conflict and promotes prosperity. In
business, it creates a better experience for everyone involved --
customers, employees, and management. Customers feel taken care of.
Employees feel appreciated and become more loyal and efficient,
strengthening the company and making it more profitable. Empathy improves
every situation it touches, setting off a chain reaction of positive
events that Tom Ward calls The Empathy Effect. |
Medicine
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Francis V. Adams |
Empathy
Expert Big Page: |
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Pulmonologist in
private practice in New York City
Dr. Adams describes the role of empathy in this vital relationship and
illustrates how a physician's emotional response to his patient's illness
may educate him rather than blur his thinking. |
Environment and Nature
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Paul
R. Ehrlich |
Empathy
Expert Big Page: |
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Biologist and educator, Professor of Population Studies in
Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's
Center for Conservation Biology.
Author:
The Population Bomb.
Author: Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and
Big Changes for a Viable Future,
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Biology And Ecology
Psychology
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) -
Compassionate Communication
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Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Trainers
There are many trainers for the NVC process that have deep insights
and stories into lived and applied empathy. We will be interviewing as
many of the trainers as we can.
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Dominic
Barters - Restorative Circles
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of the things I experience when empathy is present, is that the blocks to
action, which does not exclude are removed. So one of the ways that I can
identify that empathy is present, is that whatever is impeding action is
gone, and that the quality that that action has is that it tends to
include, it connects, it brings pieces together, it resolve what appears
to be knotted and bond. |
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Ike Lasater |
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Jean Morrison
Empathy is a quiet place.
Santa Cruz Nonviolent Communication |
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John Kinyon |
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Katy Dawson
Story of dealing with angry child with empathy.
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Kathy Simon |
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Lynda Smith |
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Miki Kashtan
Bay Area Nonviolent Communication |
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Newt Bailey
Bay Area Nonviolent Communication |
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Meganwind Eoyang
Bay Area Nonviolent Communication
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Rita Marie Johnson,
Founder of the Rasur Foundation and BePeace, talking about the nature and
importance of empathy. Empathy is like traveling down a beautiful
path to a friends house, I arrive at my finds house and we go into a hot
tub. |
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Scott Catamus
I try to have compassion and not
judgment.
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Shantigarbha
Warren
I’ve recently finished my book on
empathy ‘Empathy: the art of compassionate presence’ and I’m
currently negotiating with a US publisher. In the meantime, over
the summer I was keen to get on the road and share what I’d
learned in writing it. So I gave a talk in several locations
called ‘Empathy: what, why and how?’ |
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Sura Hart
Teachers and parents need empathy.
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Christy Michaels
Desiree Banzhaf
Kit Miller
Nora Hoffman
Nancy Kahn
Oren J Sofer |
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Education -
Learning empathy
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Zoe Weil |
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Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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President of the
Institute for Humane Education.
Interviewed on the relationship between Humane Education and empathy.
To build a culture of empathy, we have to
make sure the systems in place, food systems, transportation systems,
clothing, product systems are humane and sustainable. |
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Carolyn Zahn-Waxler |
Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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Child Development
"Throughout her career Carolyn has studied the origins and development of
empathy and caring behaviors beginning in the first years of life. These
longitudinal studies have focused on the role of genes, temperament,
family life and socialization experiences that foster or impede compassion
and altruism in children. She has also conducted longitudinal studies on
(a) the role of emotion in the development of psychopathology in
adolescents and (b) risk and protective factors in the development of
conduct problems."
Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
Empathy TED Talk |
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Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Segal is a social policy analyst with a
background in professional social work. She currently holds the position
of Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.
Dr. Segal’s current research is on social empathy, the application of
empathic insights into creating better social welfare policies and
programs.
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Humanities - Politics
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Martha Nussbaum |
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Philosopher -
Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago
suggest that novel reading cultivates readers' empathy |
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Jakob Eklund |
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This
page and Centre seems defunct
Director of The Swedish Empathy
Centre
Sweden, Stockholm University
Dissertation:
Exploring
the phenomenon of Empathy
Jakob
Eklund received his Ph.D. on empathy for Henry Montgomery at Department of
Psychology, Stockholm University, 2003. Jakob then did Post-doc research
with Dan Batson in Kansas. Is currently doing research about empathy and
teaches psychology at Mälardalen University. |
List of People in the
Empathy field from Swedish Empathy Center
People in Philosophy
Evan Thompson, York
University, Canada
articles
Kathleen Haney, University of Houston, Downtown, U.S.A
Susan Verducci, San
Jose State University, U.S.A.
article
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Paul Ekman |
Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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Psychologist worked at UCSF
Author or many books.
Studies emotion and facial expressions
Says there's 3 types of empathy:
- cognitive
- emotional
- compassionate empathy. |
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Richard B. Miller |
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Professor of religious studies
and director of the the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and
American Institutions,
An interdisciplinary team of
Indiana University researchers from the humanities, life sciences,
information sciences, and social sciences has received a $199,617 grant
from the University of Chicago to study the virtue of empathy.
The Participants List |
Literature
Philosophy
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Ervin Laszlo |
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Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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Systems
philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist.
Video: Do We Have The
Ability To Feel Others?
That's the mark of a higher
consciousness, to have empathy. To actually enter into another personas
feelings, another persons mind. Not to invade it, but to feel empathy. To
feel that we are indeed one, together. We are not separate."
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Law
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Peter
Gabel |
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Empathy Expert Big Page: |
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Empathy and Restorative Justice "A
co-founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, Peter was
instrumental in creating the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law,
and Politics, a nationwide group that seeks to bring together law
teachers, lawyers, and law students who seek to connect the inner and the
outer in a fundamental transformation of legal culture. "
An editor
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Emily Gould |
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Facebook
Article: Empathic Mediation and Empathic Communication
Beneath the positions and strategies of people in conflict lies a magnetic
field of possibility, our common humanity, ready to invite resolution.
Empathic Mediation is a structure for resolving conflict that taps into
this rich source of resolution with empathy. |
Empaths - On Being an Empath
Artists
Who are artists working with a great deal of empathy or explore the topic?
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Meryl Streep |
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Empathy Expert Big Page:
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* The great gift of human beings is that we have the power
of empathy.
* I’ve thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it’s the
current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a
made up story.
* empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us. It is what
civilizes us. |
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Oliver Stone |
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Film Maker
"I'm a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush
as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison,
Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great. "
"I think there's a confusion between sympathy and empathy. Empathy means
understanding, and as a dramatist it's my job to understand, to walk in
the shoes of George W. Bush as best as I can."
"You cannot approach history unless you have empathy for the person you
may hate" |
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Susan Sarandon |
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- When you start to develop your powers of empathy and
imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- I think I'm an actor because I have very strong
imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are
exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
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About her children, “I hope they're present in their lives and feel
some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the
world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else
and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away,”
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Autism
Anti
Empathy or
Personality
Disorders: Narcissism,
Sociopathy, Psychopathy
Compassion
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Matthieu Ricard |
Empathy Expert Big Page:
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Buddhist monk who went from a scientific
career as a molecular biologist to the study of Buddhism in the Himalayas.
He has been the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama since 1989. |
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Thich Nhat Hanh |
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Buddhist Monk & Author of many
books on peace.
Author:
Answers from the Heart: Compassionate and Practical Responses to Life's
Burning Questions
The essence of love and compassion is understanding,
the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological
suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other.
We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness
for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not
enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our
observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of
compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with." |
Self-Empathy and Self-Compassion
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Kristin
Neff |
Empathy Expert Big Page:
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Associate Professor in Human Development and Culture at the
University of Texas at Austin.
Book: Self-Compassion:
Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind
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Religion
To Sort
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Dan
Seigel |
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"This mirror neuron system has
since been identified in human beings and is now considered the root of
empathy". (MINDSIGHT, page 59).
fora.tv
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Bruce D. Perry |
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M.D., Ph.D. is
the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy
adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago.
Coauthor: Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD
Born for Love Empathy, the
Brain, and Human Connection |
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Robert Reich |
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Public lecture, "Social Justice
and Social Empathy: Where Did They Go? How Can We Regain Them?"
Video:blip.tv
Reich: The new economy depends upon relational skills and
empathy. I hate to generalize, but women clearly have the edge.
Boyden: Would you say women have an advantage because of their empathy,
relationship skills, and better instincts?
Reich: Absolutely. |
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Lynne Cameron |
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Professor of
Applied Linguistics, The
Open University, UK
A research project launch - empathy and the use of metaphor in social
relations. Starting from the reality of empathy in post-conflict
reconciliation:
Metaphor and the Dynamics of Empathy in Discourse
10:30 am Session 1
12:00 pm Session 2
Video:
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Helen Riess |
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"Dr. Helen Riess
is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
and Director of Empathy Research and Training at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. ..she is researching and developing a course on
enhancing empathy in the patient-doctor relationship with the use of
psychophysiology, neurobiology and didactics for medical students,
residents and faculty."
Article:
Training doctors in compassionate care |
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Dissertation: Considering others in need. On altruism, empathy and
perspective taking
My research is on empathy in relation to altruism, on the definition of
what empathy really is and how it differs from sympathy,
tenderheartedness, compassion and distress. and on the role of different
type of relationships and their influence on emotional perception. I am a
hardcore empathy researcher in all possible ways. Not only through science
but also through training, advising, speaking and the like.
facebook -
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Claus Lamm |
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Head of the
Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit |
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http://brl.psy.univie.ac.at/people/faculty/claus-lamm/
A major research focus is social cognition and behavior. In this domain,
the SCAN-Unit has made substantial contributions to further our
understanding of the neural underpinnings of empathy and understanding
others, and their link to prosocial behavior, cooperation, and
competition. |
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Marti Kheel |
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Empathy Expert Big Page |
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Marti Kheel
is a prominent writer and activist in the areas of ecofeminism,
animal advocacy, and environmental ethics and author of the recently
published
Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective.
"By shedding light on the root causes of social problems,
ecofeminism can help us to deepen our capacity for empathy for all
living beings, thereby helping to bring about a world of peace and
respect for all living beings." |
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Kathleen Barry |
Empathy
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Feminist activist
and sociologist, Professor Emerita of Penn State University
Unmakingwar.net
UNMAKING WAR,
REMAKING MEN: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and
Ourselves
She explores soldiers' experiences through
a politics of empathy - probes the psychopathy |
| Daniel H. Pink |
Empathy Expert Big Page |
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Author of four
provocative books about the changing world of work.
A Whole New
Mind: Why Right
Brainers Will Rule The Future
Chapter Seven: Empathy
Empathy
is the ability to imagine yourself in some else's position and to intuit what
that person is feeling. It is the ability to stand in others' shoes, to see with
their eyes, and to feel with their hearts.
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Others:
Interview Series
Academic Research
Centers Studying Empathy and Compassion
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Poynter Center for the Study of
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Indiana University - Bloomington, IN
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Those questions and more are being explored by a
workshop on empathy at IU Bloomington, co-sponsored by the Poynter Center for
the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the Institute for Advanced
Study. The workshop, which runs through the current academic year, brings
together 15 scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss their work on
empathy-related topics.
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An
interdisciplinary team of Indiana University researchers from the
humanities, life sciences, information sciences, and social sciences has
received a $199,617 grant from the University of Chicago to study the virtue
of empathy.
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The Project
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Mind and life
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To establish
mutually respectful working collaboration and research partnerships
between modern science and Buddhism - two of the world's most fruitful
traditions for understanding the nature of reality and promoting human
well-being. |
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The Dalai
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Vancouver, BC,
Canada
The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education educates the heart and
fosters compassion through creative learning, facilitating and applying
research, and connecting people and ideas. |
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Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research (iPEAR)
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University of
Michigan: 'Our research focuses on extremes of empathy. Lower empathy: We
have found that narcissism is rising and empathy is declining among
American college students. Other work explores the cognitive an
intrapersonal consequences of narcissism, and methods of reducing
narcissism and egotistically-motivated aggression. We also seek to
understand the emotional processes associated with other empathy-relevant
traits such as self-construal and alexithymia. ..' |
Neuroscience Labs
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Center for Culture,
Brain, and Development - UCLA |
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"The FPR-UCLA
Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) fosters training and
research at UCLA to explore how culture and social relations inform brain
development, how the brain organizes cultural and social development, and
how development gives rise to a cultural brain." |
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The A-Z Lab - University of Southern California |
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"Our current
research focuses on understanding properties of the mirror neuron system
and shared representations as it relates to stroke and neurorehabilitation,
contextual effects on empathy, embodied cognition, social communication,
language, and visual creativity.
Principal Investigator - Dr. Lisa Aziz-Zadeh is an assistant professor at
the University of Southern California, in the
Brain and Creativity
Institute, and in the
Department of Occupational Science. She studies social cognition from
a cognitive neuroscience perspective, using techniques including
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation (TMS)." |
Others
| Ashoka.org |
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Ashoka's Empathy
Initiative: 'In this new world, empathy is one of the most important
skills. Every individual needs the skill of empathy to succeed.'
'we aim to create a world committed and equipped to
ensuring that every child masters empathy.'
Empathy.ashoka.org
StartEmpathy.org |
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