Structuring empathy

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...

Empathy for the Sake of Empathy :

Defining Empathy and Its Components Empathy

In The Western Illusion of Human Nature, the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins (2008) chronicles a common idea uniting philosophers including Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, and John Adams. According to Sahlins, these thinkers believed that social contracts are needed to restrain humans from expressing their antisocial “natural state,” under which self-interest trumps all other concerns. This view of ...

Structuring Virtuality

The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of an empirical procedure for generating user-based cognitive and social cognitive models of tasks/problems/contexts that can be employed to create readily navigable link structures for virtuality-mediated communication and collaboration purposes. Employing a natural language, user-based method, this study describes patterns found across 128 in...

Specification Structuring

Programs that accept inputs, compute and produce outputs are specified by describing all possible inputs and the corresponding outputs. When the possible inputs are finite in number—as is the case with combinatorial circuits, for instance—the input,output pairs may be explicitly enumerated. However, for most programs it is convenient to describe input,output by logical propositions such as a pr...