UID:
edocfu_9961342900802883
Format:
1 online resource (242 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-73961-4
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9786610739615
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0-470-03058-5
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0-470-03059-3
Series Statement:
Novartis Foundation symposium ; 278
Content:
Empathy is the process that allows us to share the feelings and emotions of others, in the absence of any direct emotional stimulation to the self. Humans can feel empathy for other people in a wide array of contexts: for basic emotions and sensation such as anger, fear, sadness, joy, pain and lust as well as for more complex emotions such as guilt, embarrassment and love. It has been proposed that, for most people, empathy is the process that prevents us doing harm to others. Although empathy seems to be an automatic response of the brain to others' emotional reactions, there are circumstan
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Chair's introduction; Embodied simulation: from mirror neuron systems to interpersonal relations; The neuronal basis of empathy and fairness; What's fair? The unconscious calculusof our moral faculty; Chimpanzees may recognize motives and goals, but may not reckon on them; Empathy-related responding and prosocial behaviour; GENERAL DISCUSSION I; A social interaction analysis of empathy and fairness; Triggering the intentional stance; Dissociable systems for empathy; Looking at other people: mechanismsfor social perception revealed insubjects with focal amygdala damage
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Models of distributive justiceWhen do we empathize?; Cooperation through moral commitment; FINAL DISCUSSION; Contributor index; Subject index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-470-02626-X
Language:
English
