The age of empathy: nature's lessons for a kinder society.

By Kate Wong. 2009

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Compassion revealed: What we know about compassion at work (and where we need to know more) (2011, background): “…Smith argued that empathy and compassion were at least as important and interesting as self-interest (Smith, 1976), this point has been obscured through organizational models that assume human nature to consist only of individual self-interest (see de Waal, 2009; Walsh, Weber, & Margolis, 2003).”
Who gives? A literature review of predictors of charitable giving. Part two: gender, marital status, income, and wealth (2012, background): “According to primatologist Frans de Waal (2009), empathic concern can be traced back to early primate evolution and was developed simultaneously with parental care.”
Empathy and engineering formation (2019, background): “…discourse in the scholarly and popular literature presents empathy as central not only to healthy human relationships (Agosta, 2015; McLaren, 2013; Perry & Szalavitz, 2011) but also to the peaceful continuation of a democratic society (Blank-Libra, 2016; De Waal, 2009; Rifkin, 2009; Trout, 2009).”
Emerging Issues in the Cross-Cultural Study of Empathy (2012, background): “Lastly, the ethnographic study of empathy for or by numinous beings of various kinds, such as gods, spirits, or deceased ancestors, raises the question of just how embodied, visceral, and proximate “the face” (de Waal, 2009) of empathy must be.”
Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots (2017, background): “It has been shown that empathy promotes stronger relationships and collaboration and that it is one of the pillars of morality (Hoffman 2001; Davis 1994; de Waal 2010).”
The ontogeny of human prosociality: behavioral experiments with children aged 3 to 8 (2012, background): “Some have argued that related traits, potentially including empathy or moral sentiments, can be found among chimpanzees, our closest living primate relatives, and that we inherited these traits from our most recent common ancestor (de Waal, 1997a, 2009).”
The humanity of what we eat: Conceptions of human uniqueness among vegetarians and omnivores† (2011, background): “…features that were once attributed only to human beings (e.g. consciousness, theory of mind, empathy, personality) was questioned in contemporary cognitive and behavioural sciences (De Waal, 2009; Gosling, 2008; Gosling & John, 1999; Nettle, 2006; Premack & Woodruff, 1978; Tomasello & Call, 1997).”
The Dark Side of Empathy: Mimesis, Deception, and the Magic of Alterity (2015, background): “…2006; Zahavi 2001), neuroscience (Baron-Cohen 2012; Decety and Ickes 2009; Gallese 2003; Stueber 2012), primatology (Preston and de Waal 2002; de Waal 2009b), psychology (Eisenberg and Strayer 1987; Farrow and Woodruff 2007; Halpern 2001), political science (Rifkin 2009), or anthropology…”