Empathy

From Bench to Bedside
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-262-01661-2
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Social Neuroscience

Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interactions. This volume covers a wide range of topics in empathy theory, research, and applications, helping to integrate perspectives as varied as anthropology and neuroscience. The contributors discuss the evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in clinical practice; and the cost of empathy.Taken together, the contributions significantly broaden the interdisciplinary scope of empathy studies, reporting on current knowledge of the evolutionary, social, developmental, cognitive, and neurobiological aspects of empathy and linking this capacity to human communication, including in clinical practice and medical education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Decety, Jean

Weitere Mitwirkende

Decety, Jean

Zahavi, Dan

Overgaard, Søren

Young, Allan

Batson, C. Daniel

Echols, Stephanie C.

Correll, Joshua

Lewis, Karyn L.

Hodges, Sara D.

Waal, Frans B. M. de

Light, Sharee

Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn

Vaish, Amrisha

Warneken, Felix

Eisenberg, Nancy

Huerta, Snjezana

Edwards, Alison

Michalska, Kalina

Marsh, Abigail

Zaki, Jamil

Ochsner, Kevin N.

Halpern, Jodi

Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel

Figley, Charles R.

Shapiro, Johanna

Terman, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Decety, Jean
Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy: From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.

Zahavi, Dan
Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Self-Awareness and Alterity and Husserl's Phenomenology.

Decety, Jean
Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy: From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.

Jean Decety is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (MIT Press, 2007).