"Wonderful tales are not, as so many people still believe, alienating and politically incorrect. On the contrary, they have a great social function, either by getting us familiarized with the ...symbolic language, the only one used by the unconscious, or by taking us out of our narrow reality, which makes us more permeable to diversity and allows empathy."
This article details the development and implementation of empathy-building movement exercises in service of our creative process for Project Highway HabitUS. We outline the creative research that ...guided our project, how the movement exercises were developed, and how they can be modified for use in a variety of learning environments.
Empathy is 'first-personal' in at least two ways. When my brother is on the rack, it is 'by the imagination' that I grasp how it is for him, wrote Adam Smith. I imagine him de se, with the indexical ...first person: I self-ascribe being in that situation, and, more mysteriously, being him in that situation. Moreover, I imagine him subjectively, with a first personal phenomenology that somehow captures what the suffering is like. Subjective and de se imagining are distinct, but have each been heralded as revealing something deep about the first-personal stand-point. I illustrate their distinctness with a story whose combinatorial possibilities also indicate their independence. I suggest that de se and subjective imagining each contribute to empathy's epistemic and motivational role in ethics. But I partly agree with sceptics who doubt the significance of de se attitudes. The de se requires no 'person' in its 'first personal', as illustrated by inanimate machines, whose de se 'attitudes' include analogues of self-discovery, and of empathy itself. Finally, I defend the mystery in empathic imagining, the 'auto-alienation', the seeming-implication that I could be someone else: the perception, or illusion, of the contingency of being me.
This study examined a professional development program aimed at supporting Jewish civics teachers in their efforts to promote empathy among their students toward Israeli Arabs. Previous results ...indicated an increase in outgroup empathy among teachers who watched and reflected upon clips from a television sitcom. This article focuses on skills teachers developed and strategies they designed and implemented following their experience with empathy processes. Our findings underscore the educative potential of indirect mediated contact in segregated societies, and the importance of developing empathic processes among teachers before they embark on the challenge of supporting their students in such endeavors.
This work highlights the significance of the study on intersubjectivity and empathy in the platonic Alcibiades I to show its relevance for the understanding of the development of ancient anthropology ...and its value as a case study on the dialogue between philosophical ideas from different historical moments. For this purpose, we will examine the definition of the human being and the analogy of the sight, and we will connect this approaches with contemporary phenomenological views about intersubjectivity and empathy in order to explore this issue and to reveal the power of inter-epochal dialogue as a primary element of the internal logic of philosophy.
Hospitalists have a unique opportunity to provide a compassionate environment for patients and families who are facing fear and uncertainty. Recently, I was able to experience hospitalization from ...the other side of the hospital bed. In this short article, I share a few lessons I learned from my own experience and recent experiences with my father and daughter.
Empathy is sometimes a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. This volume looks for the common ...ground between the results of Digital Media ideas on the subject, fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, and finally even in Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance.
Objetivo. Comparar la dimensión de cognición social de la Teoría de la Mente (ToM, por sus siglas en inglés) y la empatia entre deportistas y no deportistas. Método. Se ejecutó un diseño transversal ...con muestreo intencional, en el que 46 deportistas (Medad = 18.2, DE = 4.5) y 48 no deportistas (Medad= 20.2, DE = 3.5) completaron la Tarea de Empatia por el Dolor y el Test de las Miradas. Resultados.No se hallaron diferencias en la ToM, t(92) = 1.21, p = 0.228, d = 0.25. El Anova factorial mixto 3x2 indicó que el comportamiento de empatia es homogéneo por las condiciones (neutral, accidental e intencional) y grupos (deportistas vs no deportistas), F(2, 92) = 0.127, p = 0.881, np2 = 0.001. Sin embargo, la comparación de medias mostró diferencias favorables para deportistas en la condición de estímulos neutrales (p < 0.05). Conclusión. No hay variabilidad de la ToM, ni en las condiciones de accidentalidad e intencionalidad en el aspecto empático; mientras que en estímulos neutrales, el promedio difiere favorablemente para los deportistas.
Summary
Empathy, a multidimensional construct comprised of cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, has been advanced as a critical predictor of prosocial behavior and effectiveness in the ...workplace. However, despite organizational interest in empathy, there is a lack of consensus on what empathy is, how empathy should be measured, and how empathy research can meaningfully contribute to our understanding of organizational behavior. This paper aims to provide a roadmap for researchers and practitioners interested in empathy in the workplace. We first provide an updated overview of the state of the broader multidisciplinary literature on empathy. On the basis of this literature, we outline the three dimensions of empathy, discuss the distinctions between state/trait and observer/judged empathy, and compare empathy with related constructs. This integrated multidimensional conceptualization provides the basis for our critical review and recommendations. We review the organizational research on empathy (1983–2018), identifying critical issues with how empathy has been conceptualized, measured, and designed, and offer practical recommendations for the advancement of organizational research on empathy. We conclude by highlighting two fundamental questions: (a) is empathy associated with important outcomes of interest to organizations and employees, and (b) can empathy be changed, and if so, how?
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