Controllable empathy? The adjustability of empathy from a top-down view

Interpersonal Relationships and Intimacy Affect Top-down Processing of Empathy

Introduction Being in a close relationship is essential to well being and health. The cognitive significance of closeness can be described as including the other in the self [1]. Overlapping between other and self can be represented as a change in resource allocation strategy, actor/observer perspective, and vicariously sharing other’s characteristics. Further, empathy is associated with the ab...

Empathy for the Sake of Empathy :

From impatience to empathy.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Empathy.

After defining empathy, discussing its measurement, and offering an example of empathy in practice, we present the results of an updated meta-analysis of the relation between empathy and psychotherapy outcome. Results indicated that empathy is a moderately strong predictor of therapy outcome: mean weighted r = .31 (p < .001; 95% confidence interval: .28-.34), for 59 independent samples and 3599...

Re-examining empathy: a relational-feminist point of view.

This article reviews the literature on the concept of empathy in the social work profession from the days of Mary Richmond to its use in traditional literature today. Empathy is re-examined in light of recent developments in feminist scholarship, in particular the relational-cultural theory developed at the Stone Center at Wellesley College. Moving beyond the more traditional definitions of emp...