The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise

By Jamil Zaki, Kevin N. Ochsner. Nature Neuroscience, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Interpersonal emotion regulation. (2013, background): “Empathy comprises multiple distinct, but related phenomena, including understanding a social target’s state and sharing that state (Davis, 1983; Keysers & Gazzola, 2007; Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
Mindfulness training and the cultivation of secure, satisfying couple relationships. (2013, positive): “Brain structures known to mediate experience sharing include the insula, ACC, superior temporal sulcus, inferior parietal lobule, and the premotor cortex (Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
Addressing Empathic Failures (2015, background): “These include mentalizing, or inferring others’ mental states; experience sharing, or vicariously taking on others’ internal states; and compassion, or feeling concern for others’ well-being (Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “The first, which I call experience sharing (Zaki, 2013; Zaki & Ochsner, 2012), describes observers’ tendency to take on the sensory, motor, visceral, and affective states they encounter in Jamil Zaki, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “As recent cognitive neuroscience reviews have suggested (Zaki and Ochsner, 2012), the relationship between the principal components of empathy, as they are currently studied, remains unclear.”
Correlational and exploratory factor analyses (EFA) of commonly used empathy questionnaires: New insights (2014, background): “Although there is not a consensus on the precise definition of empathy, leading theorists tend to agree that it consists of both the ability to share the emotional experience of another and the ability to understand (or mentalize) this experience (Decety and Jackson 2004; Zaki and Ochsner 2012; Eise”
Functional imaging studies of emotion regulation: A synthetic review and evolving model of the cognitive control of emotion (2012, neutral): “Given the role of dmPFC in making judgments about mental states 76, 90, 91 and that the majority of reappraisal studies use photographs of people as stimuli (see Table 1), it is likely that these regions support attention to and elaboration of emotional states, intentions, and outcomes of the…”
Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations (2014, background): “In the past few years, data from naturalistic models point to the suggestion that in complex social situations individuals use multiple empathic processes rather than distinct, depending on the context and relevance to social goals and cues (Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
The Interpersonal Functions of Empathy: A Relational Perspective (2017, background): “These distinct processes (i.e., mentalizing and experience sharing) vary in their likelihood of facilitating empathic accuracy depending on interpersonal and other contextual factors (Zaki & Ochsner, 2011, 2012).”
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (2012, background): “Interestingly when perceivers passively watch targets experiencing pain or reward, their own engagement of brain areas associated with those states predicts later prosociality (Zaki and Ochsner, 2012).”
It’s All About the Self (2016, background): “Perspective taking—the active and intentional attempt to imagine another’s perspective—additionally represents a pivotal component in the many conceptualizations of empathy (e.g., Batson, 2009; Decety & Jackson, 2006; Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy (2015, background): “Previous work suggests that perspective-taking represents a key component of empathy that can increase emotional resonance with the target (Batson, 2011; Davis, Conklin, Smith, & Luce, 1996; Zaki & Ochsner, 2012).”
Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience (2012, positive): “…12 videos in which social targets (not actors) described emotional autobiographical events (for more information on these stimuli and tasks, see Zaki et al., 2008; Zaki and Ochsner, 2011, 2012; neural correlates of participants' accuracy about target emotions are described by Zaki et al., 2009).”