Empathy: From Bench to Bedside

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Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago) Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago)

Empathy

From Bench to Bedside

Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago), Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago), Dan Zahavi (Danish Natl Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research) , Søren Overgaard (University of Copenhagen)

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MIT Press
10 January 2014

Psychology: emotions; Cognition & cognitive psychology

Series: Social Neuroscience

Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.

There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases for moral development; it is a necessary component of psychotherapy and patient-physician interactions. This volume covers a wide range of topics in empathy theory, research, and applications, helping to integrate perspectives as varied as anthropology and neuroscience. The contributors discuss the evolution of empathy within the mammalian brain and the development of empathy in infants and children; the relationships among empathy, social behavior, compassion, and altruism; the neural underpinnings of empathy; cognitive versus emotional empathy in clinical practice; and the cost of empathy.

Taken together, the contributions significantly broaden the interdisciplinary scope of empathy studies, reporting on current knowledge of the evolutionary, social, developmental, cognitive, and neurobiological aspects of empathy and linking this capacity to human communication, including in clinical practice and medical education.

Contributions by: Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago), Dan Zahavi (Danish Natl Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research), Søren Overgaard (University of Copenhagen), Allan Young (McGill University)
Edited by: Jean Decety (Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780262525954
ISBN 10: 026252595X
Series: Social Neuroscience
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 10 January 2014
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press. Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press. Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Self-Awareness and Alterity and Husserl's Phenomenology. Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press. Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Child Neurosuite. He is the coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and The Moral Brain and the editor of Empathy- From Bench to Bedside, all published by the MIT Press.