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Empathy: From Bench to Bedside
Contributor(s): Decety, Jean (Editor)

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 ISBN: 026252595X     ISBN-13: 9780262525954
Publisher: MIT Press
OUR PRICE: $31.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Emotions
- Psychology | Applied Psychology
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Dewey: 152.41
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: Social Neuroscience
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.74" W x 8.85" L (1.12 lbs) 334 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Decety, Jean: - Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Empathy: From Bench to Bedside and coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy, both published by the MIT Press.Decety, Jean: - Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Empathy: From Bench to Bedside and coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy, both published by the MIT Press.Zahavi, Dan: - 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.Cacioppo, John T.: - John T. Cacioppo is Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, Director of the Social Psychology Program, and Co-Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago.Berntson, Gary G.: - Gary G. Berntson is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at Ohio State University.
 
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