Lecture 12b: Clinical Neuroscience II - Empathy

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Basic interpretations of empathy

The ability to recognize what another person is thinking, understand what another person is feeling, and care about what another person is thinking or feeling

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Types of Emotions

Positive, Social, and Negative

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Components of Empathy

  • Emotional contagion

  • Perspective taking

  • Empathic concern

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Emotional Contagion

The tendency to catch and feel emotions that are similar to and influenced by those of others

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Perspective Taking

The recognition or understanding component of empathy; the ability to see seomthing from another’s perspective

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Mirror Neurons

Identified to activate similarily to the performance and observation of various motor patterns

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Psychopathy

Normal emotion contagion and perspective taking, and reduced empathic concern

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Autism

Reduced emotion contagion and perspective taking, normal empathic concern