The Neural Bases for Empathy

By Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory. The Neuroscientist, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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The emotional link: Leadership and the role of implicit and explicit emotional contagion processes across multiple organizational levels (2015, background): “Parallel to these findings is the Theory of Mind (ToM), which Shamay-Tsoory (2011) suggests is an ability tomentalize another’s emotions in order to facilitate understanding of another’s perspective.”
Social dimension of emotions and its implication for animal welfare (2012, background): “Firstly, evidence from cognitive and behavioural neurobiology, developmental psychology and social psychology shows that human empathy is composed of both affective and cognitive processes; that is, the feeling aspect of empathy is always supported by a mental ability to acquire and evaluate informa”
Emotional contagion in organizational life (2018, background): “In addition, mirror neuron systems2 (e.g. Nummenmaa et al., 2008; Shamay-Tsoory, 2011) and the newly suggested neurocognitive model of mimicry (Prochazkova & Kret, 2017) have recently started to receive more scholarly attention as alternative physiological feedback processes.”
What Have We Learned That Is Critical in Understanding Leadership Perceptions and Leader-Performance Relations? (2014, background): “Research shows that emotional contagion is a critical component of emotional understanding (Shamay-Tsoory, 2011) and sensemaking (O’Malley et al., 2009), and is a source of influence by charismatic leaders (Bono & Ilies, 2006; Johnson, 2008).”
Moral decision-making and moral development: Toward an integrative framework (2018, background): “Neuroimaging research has found evidence of separate neural systems for cognitive and affective empathy, with the affective network consisting of the inferior frontal gyrus, the inferior parietal lobe, the anterior cingulate and the anterior insula (See Shamay-Tsoory, 2011 for a review).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “Here we consider autism spectrum disorders (ASD) as an example case.”
Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations (2014, methodology): “…(vmPFC) prefrontal cortex areas, with the dmPFC more associated with cognitive and interpersonal ToM and the vmPFC more associated with affective and intrapersonal ToM (Abu-Akel & Shamay-Tsoory, 2011; Choi-Kain & Gunderson, 2008; Kalbe et al., 2010; Shamay-Tsoory & Aharon-Peretz, 2007).”
Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review (2015, background): “CM is described in the psychological literature as the meditative development of affective empathy as part of the visceral sharing of others’ suffering (Shamay-Tsoory 2011).”
Intracranial EEG signals disentangle multi-areal neural dynamics of vicarious pain perception (2024, background): “…imaging (fMRI) studies have identi ﬁ ed a core pain empathy network, including the anterior insula (AI), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), amygdala, and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) 9,10 . fMRI ﬁ ndings have linked these regions to distinct processes involved in vicarious pain experiences 9 – 12 .”