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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Decety, Jean.

Ickes, William John.

Series:

Social neuroscience series.

Social neuroscience series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empathy.

Neurosciences.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612240164

1-282-24016-1

0-262-25529-4

OCLC:

318457413

Publisher Number:

9786612240164