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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815859703321

Titolo

The social neuroscience of empathy / / edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612240164

1-282-24016-1

0-262-25529-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Social neuroscience series

Altri autori (Persone)

DecetyJean

IckesWilliam John

Disciplina

155.2/32

Soggetti

Empathy

Neurosciences

Social psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I What Is Empathy?; 1 These Things Called Empathy; II Social, Cognitive, and Developmental Perspectives on Empathy; 2 Emotional Contagion and Empathy; 3 Being Imitated; 4 Empathy and Knowledge Projection; 5 Empathic Accuracy; 6 Empathic Responding; 7 Empathy and Education; III Clinical Perspectives on Empathy; 8 Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory; 9 Empathy in Psychotherapy; 10 Empathic Resonance; 11 Empathy, Morality, and Social Convention; 12 Perceiving Others in Pain; IV Evolutionary and Neuroscience Perspectives on Empathy

13 Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy14 "Mirror, Mirror, in My Mind"; 15 Empathy versus Personal Distress; 16 Empathic Processing; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. This text collects cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.