Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "empathy"
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Constructing Memory, Imagination, and Empathy: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Studies on memory, imagination, and empathy have largely progressed in isolation. Consequently, humans’ empathic tendencies to care about and help other people are considered independent of our ability to remember and ... -
Distortions of Mind Perception in Psychopathology
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)It has long been known that psychopathology can influence social perception, but a 2D framework of mind perception provides the opportunity for an integrative understanding of some disorders. We examined the covariation ... -
Mentalizing About Emotion and its Relationship to Empathy
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Mentalizing involves the ability to predict someone elses behavior based on their belief state. More advanced mentalizing skills involve integrating knowledge about beliefs with knowledge about the emotional impact of those ... -
Neural Activity During Social Signal Perception Correlates With Self-reported Empathy
(Elsevier, 2010)Empathy is an important component of human relationships, yet the neural mechanisms that facilitate empathy are unclear. The broad construct of empathy incorporates both cognitive and affective components. Cognitive empathy ... -
Pleasure in response to out-group pain as a motivator of intergroup aggression
(Guilford Press, 2018)If humans are innately good, cooperative, fair, and averse to harming one another, why does widespread intergroup violence continue to afflict society? Several factors contribute to fomenting aggression between groups; ... -
Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children’s Empathic and Prosocial Behavior
(MIT Press, 2011)This chapter discusses motivational factors and the contributors responsible for the empathic and prosocial behavior of young children. The reasons that people engage in prosocial behaviors, including self-benefit and ... -
Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses
(Elsevier BV, 2014)Despite its early origins and adaptive functions, empathy is not inevitable; people routinely fail to empathize with others, especially members of different social or cultural groups. In five experiments, we systematically ...