Lecture Outline: Empathy

Mechanics and development of empathy

-people who imagine how they would feel in a given situation , often show physical changes consistent with the other person's emotional experience - Empathy is partly genetic and is stable and measurable in children under age 2

Benefits of Empathy

a. empathy training can reduce aggression and prejudice b. empathetic accuracy and empathic effort are both positively related to martial satisfaction c. positively correlated with animal protection d. environmental concern increases when people take the perspective of an animal harmed by pollution e. people high in empathy more likely to help in bystander emergency situations f. more likely to help in facebook posts that involve antigay bullying

What goes wrong when people lack empathy for one another?

a. more prejudiced b. more aggressive c. in adolescent boys, a lack of empathy predicts bullying d. a lack of empathy among parents is related to child abuse risk e. among both American and Japanese men, lack of empathy is correlated with high scores on the Likelihood to Sexuality Harass Scale f. male child molesters tend to have less empathy than do other men

Empathy Deficit Disorder

are unable to step outside themselves and tune in to what other people experience.

affective empathy

emotion matching

Empathy

feeling how someone else feels, imagining for someone else feels or thinks, imagining how would think or feel in someone else's situation

Sympathy

feeling sorry for or pitying the other person

Empathetic Distress

how empathetic people can sometimes be negatively effected just by starting to feel in a similar way the other person they are trying to empathize with( i start to feel as depressed as the other person)

cognitive empathy

thinking based taking their perspective

Physicians reducing empathy

when a physicicna is tryinto conduct surgey n a patient its usually recommend to have low empathy so that he is not distrated by the potnetial pain or death that may come