Topic 13 A: Empathy

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Evolutionary Theory

  • Predicts that animals will help only their kin

  • Overtime, altruism is advantageous because of their genetic relationship bw the helper and the helped.

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Abnormal (visceral pain)

  • It is characterized by poor localization, abdominal cramps and autonomic responses

  • dependent upon provoking stimuli that produce a given sensation

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Behaviors/ mechanisms

  • Mirroring: rapid face matching

    • motor mimicry

  • Yawn contagion

    • motor mimicry

  • State matching: sharing emotional state of another

    • emotional contagion

    • mice,voles…

  • Consolation

    • sympathetic concern based on emotional contagion

  • Learned helping: Liberating another or relieving its pain

    • emotional contagion, requires self-recognition and trial & learning

  • Targeted helping

    • emotional contagion,requires self-recognition

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State matching

Where an individual shifts their physiological state to match another