Who cares for empathy?

Who cares? Revisiting empathy in Asperger syndrome.

A deficit in empathy has consistently been cited as a central characteristic of Asperger syndrome (AS), but previous research on adults has predominantly focused on cognitive empathy, effectively ignoring the role of affective empathy. We administered the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a multi-dimensional measure of empathy, and the Strange Stories test to 21 adults with AS and 21 matche...

Who Cares for Children?

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

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Who Cares for Social Image?∗

Even though the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices, little is known about this interaction empirically. We present a laboratory experiment that provides evidence of a relevant interaction effect in the context of ethical consumption. We elicit a ...

Who Needs Psychiatry, Who Cares for Psychiatry ?

Sir, I was happy till recently about many progressive activities of our profession through out the country. For example, experiments done to develop community based psychiatric services; brain storming sessions conducted to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatric education. But today, I sit downcast, sharing the profession's collective guilt and responsibility for the recent fate suffered by t...