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Format: 1 online resource (216 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-12-809348-X , 0-12-805397-6

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Introduction-Empathy Beyond Semantics -- References -- Further Readings -- Chapter 2 - The Vicarious Brain: Integrating Empathy and Emotional Learning -- Introduction -- New Light on Old Phenomena -- Empathy Affects Emotional Learning -- Bridging Terminologies -- Emotional Resonance in Empathy -- Vicarious Fear Learning -- Vicarious Safety Learning -- Emotional Learning Affects Empathy -- Learning of Empathy Across the Life Span -- Emotional Learning and Empathy as Mutually Reinforcing Loops -- A common core -- Conclusions and future directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 - The Neural Bases of Empathy in Humans -- Definitions: Empathy and Related Terms -- Mirror Neurons, Shared Representations, and Self-Other Distinction -- Modulations of Empathy-The Case of Stress -- Oxytocin as a Potential Moderator of Stress Effects on Empathy? -- References -- Chapter 4 - Neural Correlates of Empathy in Humans, and the Need for Animal Models -- Empathy and Its Components: Emotional Contagion, Empathy Proper, and Sympathy -- Related Phenomena: Mentalizing, Somatosensory, and Motor Empathy -- The Neural Correlates of Emotional Empathy -- Factors Modulating AI and rCC Activations in Humans -- Limitation of Our Understanding of the Neural Basis of Empathy From fMRI and the Need for Animal Studies -- Funding -- References -- Chapter 5 - Ethological Approaches to Empathy in Primates -- Introduction -- An Evolutionary Approach to Empathy -- Empathy in Great Apes and Monkeys: A Taxonomic Divide? -- Experimental and Naturalistic Approaches to Primate Empathy -- Contagious Yawning -- Rapid Facial Mimicry -- Sympathetic Concern -- Targeted Helping -- Spontaneous Responses to Naturally Occurring Emotional Events. , Empathy Development and Emotion Regulation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 - Mirror Neurons, Embodied Emotions, and Empathy -- Introduction -- Empathy, Emotions, and Imitation -- Understanding the Actions of Others From "Inside" -- Face Mirroring and Sharing Emotion -- Mimicry and Emotional Contagion -- Advantages of Mirror Neurons -- References -- Chapter 7 - The Neurobiological Influence of Stress in the Vole Pair Bond -- Introduction -- The Prairie Vole Pair Bond Model -- Partner Preference Formation -- Selective Aggression -- Sex Differences in the Role of Stress on Pair Bond Formation -- Social Buffering and Consoling: Reflections of Empathy -- Partner Loss: Depression and Bond Disruption -- Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Disclosure Statements -- References -- Chapter 8 - The Social Transmission of Associative Fear in Rodents-Individual Differences in Fear Conditioning by Proxy -- Direct and Indirect Associative Fear Learning -- Fear Conditioning by Proxy Social Learning Paradigm -- Individual Factors That Contribute to Fear Conditioning by Proxy -- Familiarity/Kinship -- Auditory Stimuli-Ultrasonic Vocalizations -- Dominance Hierarchy -- Demonstrator Freezing -- Previous Fear Experience -- Social Fear Learning in Rodents-Evidence for Empathy? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9 - Neuronal Correlates of Remote Fear Learning in Rats -- Emotional Contagion-What Can Animals Learn From Fearful Conspecifics? -- Rodent Models of Socially Transferred Fear -- Social Modulation of Fear Memories -- Neuronal Correlates of Socially Transferred Fear -- Central Amygdala -- Sex Differences in Socially Transferred Fear -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 10 - Lost in Translation: Improving Our Understanding of Pain Empathy -- Introduction -- The Social Neuroscience of Pain in Rodents -- Toward a Translational Neuroscience of Empathy. , Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 - Relief From Stress Provided by Conspecifics: Social Buffering -- Introduction -- What Is Social Buffering? -- Examples of Exposure-Type Social Buffering -- Examples of Housing-Type Social Buffering -- Social Buffering of Conditioned Fear Responses in Rats -- Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Buffering of Conditioned Fear Responses -- Social Buffering of Conditioned Hyperthermia in Rats -- Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Buffering of Conditioned Hyperthermia -- Possible Psychological Factor Inducing Social Buffering in Rats -- Summary and Implications of Social Buffering Phenomena -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12 - Helping Behavior in Rats -- Helping Is an Observable Outcome of Empathy -- Rats Help Another in Distress -- A Rat's Motivation to Release a Trapped Conspecific -- An Affective Motivation to Release a Trapped Conspecific -- Prosocial Actions Abound in Rodents -- Empathy Is a Morally Neutral Term -- Overemphasis of the Positive Side of Empathy Retards Scientific Progress -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13 - Challenging Convention in Empathy Research: Developing a Mouse Model and Initial Neural Analyses -- Origins of the Model and Development -- The Sound of Discomfort -- Neural Correlates of Vicarious Fear -- Relation to Biomedical Models -- Contagion or Empathy? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14 - Lack of Empathy-Mouse Models -- Empathy Deficits in Humans -- Mouse Models of Empathy Deficits -- Oxytocin as a Therapeutic Agent -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 15 - Future Directions, Outstanding Questions -- References -- Index -- Back cover.

Language: English