By connecting sociological perspectives on sympathy with the concept of ‘ideal victims’, this article examines how forms and informs legal thought practices in relation to victim status Swedish courts. In its broadest sense, can be understood as an understanding care for someone else’s suffering many contexts victimization are densely entangled. However, since ideals objectivity neutrality prev...

Feeling concern about the suffering of others is considered a basic human response, and yet we know surprisingly little about the cultural factors that shape how people respond to the suffering of another person. To this end, we conducted 4 studies that tested the hypothesis that American expressions of sympathy focus on the negative less and positive more than German expressions of sympathy, i...

Seeing someone in need may evoke a particular kind of closeness that has been conceptualized as sympathy or empathic concern (which is distinct from other empathy constructs). In other contexts, when people suddenly feel close to others, or observe others suddenly feeling closer to each other, this sudden closeness tends to evoke an emotion often labeled in vernacular English as being moved, to...

962142. 43 In this more recent work, McGinnis and Rappaport cite Powell to instruct us on the interpretive conventions of the founding generation. Id. at 8 (citing Powell, supra note 39). And Powell at least provides McGinnis and Rappaport some useful support when he announces: "Although the Philadelphia framers did not discuss in detail how they intended their end product to be interpreted, th...

We are trying to understand implicit (un-represented or hidden) human intention, which may be different from explicitly-represented one. Although the taxonomy of the implicit intention is not clear yet, we hypothesize that the implicit intention domain consists of two axes, i.e., the sympathy for one’s represented intention and the sympathy for one’s counterpart. The former had been studied in ...

Sympathetic responses to characters are a pervasive form of narrative engagement, and they contribute importantly to what makes perceiving a narrative a rewarding experience. Yet, the notion of sympathy has received relatively little attention in contemporary philosophy of art, especially when compared to the lively debates surrounding the notion of empathy.1 Here, I propose an analysis of symp...

Objective Caregivers’ pain estimations may have important implications for pediatric pain management decisions. Affective responses elicited by facing the child in pain are considered key in understanding caregivers’ estimations of pediatric pain experiences. Theory suggests differential influences of sympathy versus personal distress on pain estimations; yet empirical evidence on the impact of...