The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

By Tania Singer, Claus Lamm. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Development of artificial empathy. (2015, background): “Therefore, mimicry and emotional contagion are regarded as important, yet distinct and neither necessary nor sufﬁcient processes for the experience of empathy (Singer and Lamm, 2009).”
Humane Entrepreneurship: How Focusing on People Can Drive a New Era of Wealth and Quality Job Creation in a Sustainable World (2018, background): “…of others (Ickes and Simpson 1997), leading to two broad classes of response: a cognitive intellectual reaction (an ability for one person to understand another person’s perspective), and an affective, more visceral, emotional reaction (where one feels the pain of another) (Decety and Ickes 2011).”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “To a large extent, empathy for others requires us to have empathy for ourselves and forms of self-awareness [23].”
Two-Year Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Program on Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation and Academic Performance (2016, background): “…of neural systems that support emotional, cognitive, and behavioral regulation, specifically increased activation of prefrontal cortical regions of the brain (Creswell, Way, Eisenberger, & Lieberman, 2007; Farb et al., 2007; Lutz et al., 2009; Singer & Lamm, 2009; Slagter et al., 2007).”
Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping. (2010, positive): “Confirming previous results in empathy-for-pain research (for reviews, see Decety and Lamm, 2006; Hein and Singer, 2008; Singer and Lamm, 2009), both our ROI and our whole-brain analyses revealed enhanced activation in AI when participants witnessed others’ pain.”
Empathy, Sympathy, and Pity: 21st-Century Definitions and Implications for Practice and Research (2011, background): “Singer and Lamm (2009) state, “The crucial distinction between the term empathy and those like s ympathy , empathic concern , and compassion is that empathy denotes that the observer's emotions reflect affective sharing (‘feeling with’ the other person) while compassion, sympathy, empathic con”
The Dark Side of Empathy: Mimesis, Deception, and the Magic of Alterity (2015, background): “…literature on empathy, whether within the fields of philosophy (Kögler and Stueber 2000; 2006; Zahavi 2001), neuroscience (Baron-Cohen 2012; Decety and Ickes 2009; Gallese 2003; Stueber 2012), primatology (Preston and de Waal 2002; de Waal 2009b), psychology (Eisenberg and Strayer 1987;…”
A Model of Empathy in Engineering as a Core Skill, Practice Orientation, and Professional Way of Being (2017, background): “The conceptual and pedagogical traditions around empathy in social work have been shaped, and continue to be shaped, by research from psychology and neurobiology (Decety & Ickes, 2009; Decety & Moriguchi, 2007).”
Examining Ways That a Mindfulness-Based Intervention Reduces Stress in Public School Teachers: a Mixed-Methods Study (2016, background): “In addition to emotion regulation and coping, mindfulness has also been linked to the cultivation of various interpersonal skills and dispositions, including empathy, perspective taking, and compassion (Lutz et al. 2008; Singer and Lamm 2009).”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “…components nor the top-down cognitive functions (e.g., perspective taking, appraisal, and emotional regulation) are likely to be singular events, but they are ongoing experiences that are iterative and dynamically interacting in complex, ongoing, recursive feedback loops (Singer & Lamm, 2009).”
Emerging Issues in the Cross-Cultural Study of Empathy (2012, result): “…of disciplines, including philosophy (Kogler & Stueber, 2000; Stueber, 2006), medicine (Farrow & Woodruff, 2007; Halpern, 2001), psychotherapy (Bohart & Greenberg, 1997), evolutionary science (de Waal, 2009), and neuroscience (Decety & Ickes, 2009) have made empathy a central focus of research.”