Being Human Together: Empathy Revisited

Improving Empathy and Communication Skills of Visually Impaired Early Adolescents through a Psycho- education Program YILDIZ, DUY / Improving Empathy and Communication Skills of Visually Impaired Early Adolescents through..

interaction with others in human beings. Social interaction is the basic ingredient that supports social environment and maintains it (Hargie, 2011). Communication meets one of fundamental psychological needs of human being; a need for interaction (Kaya, 2010). As a social being, human beings have a need to live with others, and building effective communication is a prerequisite for living toge...

Haptotherapy and Empathy

In this article I attempt to approach haptotherapy – and haptonomy in general – from the perspective of empathy. At first sight, here seems to be a striking relationship between haptotherapy and empathy. From an empathy perspective, haptotherapy is like empathy-with-the-hands, whereas empathy could be called haptotherapy-with-your-feelers. Both have a supportive, affirmative effect. Both are be...

Zibun revisited: empathy, logophoricity, and binding

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...

Introduction to Empathy : Activation , Definition , Construct

Empathy indicates an emotional rapport, or identification, with another person. It has been introduced as a central focus for ‘sensitivity trainings’ and feedback workshops in professional settings, and the relatively new Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) movement in schools. Empathy is promoted as a hallmark of social relationships that if featured in human interactions will presumably make ...