The functional architecture of human empathy.

By Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson. Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social neuroscience evidence for dehumanised perception (2009, background): “The MPFC along with STS and precuneus also reliably activates in tasks requiring empathy (Decety & Jackson, 2004, 2006, see Figure 1).”
From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding (2012, background): “This process can be cognitively taxing, as it involves the suppression of the perceiver’s own viewpoint while imagining that of another agent (Decety & Jackson, 2004; Frith & Frith, 2003; Keysar, Lin, & Barr, 2003).”
Conceptualizing Empathy in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Making the Implicit Explicit (2007, positive): “This fast acting system explains why we experience rapid empathic responses to distress in others (Decety and Jackson, 2004) – not just to humans, but also to animals and even to robots that we have never met (supported by the number of people crying in the cinema whilst watching the young robot boy”
To What Extent is the Experience of Empathy Mediated by Shared Neural Circuits? (2010, result): “These findings are consistent with the idea of distinct and interrelated neural systems underpinning the experience of empathy (Decety & Jackson, 2004).”
Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism (2013, background): “The executive functions occur in such parts of the prefrontal cortex as the medial region and in the inferior parietal lobule (e.g., Decety & Jackson, 2004; Decety & lamm, 2006: 1151).”
Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observation of outgroups. (2010, background): “Such perception–action-coupling (Decety & Jackson, 2004) is implemented by brain mechanisms that allow observers to mirror the actions and emotions of those they observe, thereby synchronizing the inner states of both individuals.”
Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience (2006, background): “Furthermore, recent data suggest that this region is also involved in empathy[36] and in theory of mind, i.”
Emotional Contagion and Empathy (2009, background): “…however, agree that true empathy requires three distinct skills: the ability to share the other person’s feelings, the cognitive ability to intuit what another person is feeling, and a “socially beneficial” intention to respond compassionately to that person’s distress (Decety & Jackson, 2004).”
The Development of Empathic Perspective‐Taking in an Engineering Ethics Course (2017, background): “More concretely, Decety and Jackson (2004) described empathy as contingent upon three components: emotion sharing, self-other awareness, and mental flexibility paired with self-regulation.”
Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations (2014, background): “(Davis, 1994) and integrative (Decety & Jackson, 2004; Preston & de Waal, 2002) models that bind several aspects of empathy and empathy-related behaviors.”
Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: An event-related brain potential study (2010, background): “…(bottom-up) based on the perception–action coupling that results in affective sharing, and a executive control (top-down) component subserved by the prefrontal cortex to regulate this experience (Decety, in press-b; Decety and Jackson, 2004; Decety andMoriguchi, 2007; Goubert et al., 2009).”
Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience. (2009, background): “In line with these findings, the frontal lobes may functionally serve to separate perspectives, or resist interference from one’s own perspective when adopting the subjective perspective of others (Decety & Jackson, 2004).”
Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation (2010, background): “Prior research indicates that empathy is a multicomponent process that includes affect sharing, cognitive perspective taking, and cognitive appraisal (Decety and Jackson, 2004; Hein and Singer, 2008; Lamm et al., 2007a; Olsson and Ochsner, 2008).”
Empathizing With Others’ Pain Versus Empathizing With Others’ Joy: Examining the Separability of Positive and Negative Empathy and Their Relation to Different Types of Social Behaviors and Social Emotions (2015, background): “This work suggests, among other things, that empathy may play a central role in the human need for belongingness (Baumeister & Leary, 1995) by facilitating the emotional connection between individuals necessary for smooth and responsive social interactions (Decety & Jackson, 2004).”
The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans (2010, background): “Most scholars agree that empathy includes both cognitive and affective components [Decety and Jackson, 2004; Eisenberg and Eggum, 2009; Hodges and Klein, 2001] that have different developmental trajectories.”