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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2/32
• Soggetto topico: Empathy; Neurosciences; Social psychology
• Soggetto non controllato: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology; NEUROSCIENCE/General
• Altri autori: DecetyJean IckesWilliam John
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The social neuroscience of empathy
• ISBN: 9786612240164; 1-282-24016-1; 0-262-25529-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777755503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social neuroscience series.