Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the
perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical
psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience. In recent decades,
empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary
field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is
premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels
(biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to a more
comprehensive understanding of how other people's thoughts and
feelings can affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In
these cutting-edge contributions, leading advocates of the
multilevel approach view empathy from the perspectives of social,
cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and
cognitive/affective neuroscience. Chapters include a critical
examination of the various definitions of the empathy construct;
surveys of major research traditions based on these differing views
(including empathy as emotional contagion, as the projection of
one's own thoughts and feelings, and as a fundamental aspect of
social development); clinical and applied perspectives, including
psychotherapy and the study of empathy for other people's pain;
various neuroscience perspectives; and discussions of empathy's
evolutionary and neuroanatomical histories, with a special focus on
neuroanatomical continuities and differences across the
phylogenetic spectrum. The new discipline of social neuroscience
bridges disciplines and levels of analysis. In this volume, the
contributors' state-of-the-art investigations of empathy from a
social neuroscience perspective vividly illustrate the potential
benefits of such cross-disciplinary integration. Contributors C.
Daniel Batson, James Blair, Karina Blair, Jerold D. Bozarth, Anne
Buysse, Susan F. Butler, Michael Carlin, C. Sue Carter, Kenneth D.
Craig, Mirella Dapretto, Jean Decety, Mathias Dekeyser, Ap
Dijksterhuis, Robert Elliott, Natalie D. Eggum, Nancy Eisenberg,
Norma Deitch Feshbach, Seymour Feshbach, Liesbet Goubert, Leslie S.
Greenberg, Elaine Hatfield, James Harris, William Ickes, Claus
Lamm, Yen-Chi Le, Mia Leijssen, Abigail Marsh, Raymond S.
Nickerson, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Stephen W. Porges, Richard L.
Rapson, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Rick B. van Baaren, Matthijs L.
van Leeuwen, Andries van der Leij, Jeanne C. Watson
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