Suffering for Others While Making Others Suffer: Military Narratives of Sacrifice

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.

Embodied neural responses to others' suffering.

To investigate whether and how facial mimicry in observers affects their empathic neural responses to others' pain expressions, we recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from Chinese adults while viewing pain and neutral expressions of Asian and Caucasian faces. Facial mimicry was manipulated by allowing participants to freely move their facial muscles (the relaxed condition) or asking them t...

Making health care decisions for others.

If it is impossible in the circumstances to follow the wish, or the SDM does not know of a wish applicable to the situation, the SDM must make the decision according to the person’s best interests. 2. Best Interests of the Person 1. The values and beliefs of the person 2. Any current wishes the incapable person may have 3. Whether the treatment is likely to: i. Improve the condition or well-bei...

Ecological Narratives: Reclaiming the Voice of Theorized Others

The urge to theorize has been a driving force of Western intellectual tradition. It underlies academic discourse, giving the scientific enterprise its vitality. Without systematic theorizing, much of contemporary culture, particularly technology, would be virtually unthinkable. This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/97

Making Others Believe What They Want

We study the interplay between argumentation and belief revision within the MAS framework. When an agent uses an argument to persuade another one, he must consider not only the proposition supported by the argument, but also the overall impact of the argument on the beliefs of the addressee. Different arguments lead to different belief revisions by the addressee. We propose an approach whereby ...