Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy

By Jean Decety. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Interpersonal emotion regulation. (2013, background): “These empathic components are neurally and behaviorally dissociable (Decety, 2011; Frith & Frith, 2012; Keysers & Gazzola, 2007; Zaki, 2013; Zaki, Weber, Bolger, & Ochsner, 2009), but both depend on Person A’s ability to effectively express his affect (Snodgrass, Hecht, & Ploutz-Snyder, 1998; Zaki,…”
Promoting Altruism Through Meditation: An 8-Week Randomized Controlled Pilot Study (2013, background): “EC is not to be conflated with the broader term empathy (Decety 2011).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, methodology): “Although the shared manifold “does not entail we experience others as we experience ourselves” per se, it does make what gallese calls the “bootstrapping of mutual intelligibility” possible.”
Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “These data have inspired a crop of neuroscientifically based theories of empathy (Decety, 2011; Iacoboni, 2009; Keysers & Gazzola, 2009), some of which emphasize the reflexive nature of T hi s do cu m en t is co py ri gh te d by th e A m er ic an Ps yc ho lo gi ca l A ss oc ia tio n or on e of its…”
The Emotional Cost of Humanity (2016, background): “Empathy and compassion are powerful motivators of prosocial behavior (Batson, 2011; Decety, 2011; Eisenberg, 2000).”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “How does this general causal template develop into the moral template? More specifically, how does pain get linked not just with intention but also with blame? Quite simply, ascriptions of blame can stem from the aversiveness of experienced pain or the aversiveness of pain perceived in the minds oth”
Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “Empathy has been viewed as essential to effective helping but is potentially a “doubleedged sword” (Decety, 2011; Figley, 2002a), placing social workers and other helping professionals at risk for burnout and compassion fatigue.”
Addressing Empathic Failures (2015, background): “…have continued to map out how different combinations of the subcomponents of empathy predict specific emotional and behavioral responses (approach vs. avoidance: Decety, 2011; Zaki, 2014; help vs. harm: Cikara, 2015), some of which may be more consequential for conflict reduction than others.”