Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience.

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Promoting Altruism Through Meditation: An 8-Week Randomized Controlled Pilot Study (2013, background): “There is ambiguous evidence for correlations between IRI (Davis 1983) scores and neuroimaging data investigating empathic activation (Decety and Lamm 2011).”
Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: An event-related brain potential study (2010, background): “Institute of Neuroscience, N 155 Li-Nong St., Sec.”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “…influence the nature of empathic responding, including the empathizer’s current emotional state and preexisting dispositional arousal and regulatory patterns, contextual appraisal of the person and situation, and the relationship between the empathizer and the person observed (Decety & Lamm, 2009).”