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Did you know that Woodland Park Zoo has a team in our Learning & Innovation department dedicated to developing and carrying out a range of Empathy Initiatives? Empathy is a powerful emotion that drives our connection with those around us.
Empathy can be developed, strengthened and reinforced throughout our lives, and can be an important driver for positive social change. Our Empathy Initiatives work to foster empathy for animals in order to empower our guests and the community to make conservation a priority in their lives.
How do you introduce engineering practices and skills to young learners? Smithsonian educators suggest it starts with empathy.
Considered this way, the connection between early engineering and socioemotional learning, specifically the development of empathy, becomes clear, and has inspired the “Engineering through Empathy” collaboration between the Smithsonian Science Education Center and the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Empathy is the ability to understand, appreciate, and value the thoughts and feelings of others, whether that “other” is a person or an oyster. This can be challenging work to do for young children who are still developing the capacity to understand that another person can think or believe something that the child herself does not. Animals provide an amazing opportunity for educators to scaffold young children’s abilities to think and act with empathy, because children immediately understand animals as “other,” but can also easily appreciate the needs and experiences they have in common with animals.
Animals can teach children empathy. Did you know that teaching children empathy skills early in life can increase their confidence and help them better handle stressful situations?
Empathy is critical to success throughout life and is a necessary component to developing positive relationships and building rewarding careers.;
Empathy leads to stronger relationships with people and animals, and helps prevent animal cruelty and neglect, as well as bullying in schools.
Listening may not be the most exciting part of conversation, but it’s essential if you want to have a meaningful exchange with another person.
Think about a time you felt misunderstood by somebody. Did you defend yourself? Correct them? Or simply disengage? Regardless of your response, you likely didn’t feel comfortable with them.
Now think of how it feels to be understood — you can relax, you want to open up, you feel more trusting. When you listen in a way that makes the other person feel heard, they are more likely to share information with you. And when you are actively listening, you are also more likely to take it in.
In my training as a psychologist, I spent a lot of time learning how to actively listen. I can tell you from years of experience that having a productive dialogue is not possible without active listening.
Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors.
"I bought into the story of mirrors and self-recognition hook, line, and sinker," he recalls. "Because it is a compelling story."
All it took was a simple mirror, or so the story went, to reveal that our close chimpanzee relatives are self-aware, with the same kind of basic self-concept that humans have.
"The ability to empathize with others stems from a long evolutionary history that includes empathy-like behaviors in animals beyond humans. Whales and primates grieve alongside members of their social groups, for example, while rodents are able to recognize and respond to the fear and pain of their neighbors." —Amanda Heidt
"Mice may ‘catch’ each other’s pain—and pain relief: After an hour of mingling, healthy mice mirror a companion’s pain or morphine-induced relief." —Carolyn Wilke
“Pain isn’t just a physical experience...It’s an emotional experience as well." —Stanford University neuroscientist Dr. Monique Smith
The study started in 2011, when Peggy Mason, professor of neurobiology, found that rats consistently free their trapped companions, even giving up on a bit of chocolate for them. The empathy of rats has been demonstrated in several later studies, and it’s already a well established phenomenon.
But Mason also found that when rats are treated with anti-anxiety medication, they are less likely to free a trapped peer because they are less likely to feel its anxiety. In another study, researchers found that rats were hesitant to save strangers, and only freed trapped rats they were familiar with. Rat empathy is remarkably similar to human empathy, maybe in more ways than we’d like to admit.
Research shows that encouraging and developing empathy for animals in children is an important motivator toward action on the animals’ behalf. Employing empathy framing allows visitors to see animals as unique individuals worthy of care and conservation.
Therefore, we’re working to enhance exhibits, develop curriculum and other teacher resources, offer empathy fellowships, hold biennial empathy conferences and design an innovative outreach vehicle to expand our empathy reach beyond the Aquarium. Staff at the Seattle Aquarium also offer empathy workshops around the country to help other aquariums and zoos incorporate empathic learning into their institutions.
How this form of treatment can facilitate good relationships.
"How animal therapy improves human relationships
When you’re working with an animal and you’re learning to be empathetic for the creature, it can help you develop a heightened sense of empathy for other human beings as well. You remember how loving you are towards the animal and can transfer that to your friendships or other interpersonal relationships.
Animals are fully invested in their relationship with humans, so it offers a different form of companionship than that of which you’d have with other people. There’s no risk of being rejected with animals and they’re fully there to offer support, so you can practice your social skills when you work with your pet therapy animal without fearing rejection or other unpredictable responses. After doing animal therapy, your social skills and quality of life will improve."
This article describes a rapidly growing field in mental health wellness, the use of therapy animals. These are different from service animals in that they are not there to assist their humans with disabilities but rather to help them in an emotional way. The use of therapy animals covers a range of things but a noteworthy response has been the ability to build empathy with other people. Patients find that practicing social skills and emotional ranges with the animals teaches them to be more at ease with other people. Therapy animals do not have the same legal rights as service animals but as this field continues to rise, I expect there may be some adjustments made in the future.
What can rats tell us about the evolution of empathy? Is it all about avoiding danger rather than helping others?
Most studies of empathy conceive of it as a one-way phenomenon in which an observer “catches” the emotions of another. But in real life, it’s more of an interactive process in which information flows in two directions.
“Emotions develop in a social loop,” says neuroscientist Christian Keysers, lead author of the new study. For instance, when a child falls down, the parent reacts—either calmly or in a panic. The child looks to the parent and, based on his or her reaction, she might stand up and brush herself off or start sobbing.
There’s a Strong Correlation Between Increased Empathy Levels and Owning Pets Arguably the greatest benefit of pets for kids is an increased empathy level in children who own pets. This is extremely important, especially in this day and age when it seems that there’s a growing intolerance among people. Luckily, there are some pretty effective ’cures’ and remedies for these conditions, and taking care of a pet from an early age impacts this hugely.
A sense of empathy for animals can also affect our empathy for one another.
"There's a little bit of information out there, with some of it showing that when children feel empathy for animals it can have positive effects for empathy with others," Burke said.
Burke is looking to recruit at least 1,000 participants in total across two studies, including one that looks at parents' and children's attitudes towards animals and another that surveys young adults about their childhood pets and human relationships.
Studies show that ravens possess empathy and process emotional reactions to their peers, much like humans and primates do. Researchers conducted a number of tests to study the reactions of neutral stimuli to make this determination such as denying one raven food to study the reactions of others and testing for stress hormones in droppings. I find these studies to not be surprising at all and would not be surprised to find that more animals are found to display empathetic behaviors within their groups.
Why is empathy important? Empathy is being aware of how others feel and being able to understand their needs. It is being able to connect with others and feel compassion. This skill is important in personal life, but it should also be part of your professional life as well. Being able to show empathy will improve your interactions with your employees because it leads to better communication. With better communication comes better outcomes. Empathy is an important part of emotional intelligence, which is key for effective leaders. Emotionally intelligent leaders are better able to fairly manage relationships with others and are more self-aware.
Do nonhuman animals (hereafter “animals”) possess empathy and if so to which degree? Can we develop a conceptual framework that allows us to characterize similarities and differences between implementations of empathy in humans and animals? We aim to answer these questions in two steps. First, we develop a new conceptual framework by distinguishing different levels of empathy starting with paradigmatic cases of human empathy developing in human ontogeny.
Second, we describe in detail which of these levels of empathy can be found in other species based on animal studies. This approach allows a detailed characterization of the relation of empathy in humans and other animals.
A few months back, as part of a training on core values, a member of our team shared with the group that while they wanted to be seen as someone with a high degree of empathy, they very much disliked sympathy.
Their comment made me reflect introspectively on the difference between sympathy and empathy. While I had always thought of them as closely related, I’ve come to realize that is not the case.
Sympathy is most often experienced when we feel bad for someone else, viewing the situation from our own distant perspective. Sympathy isn’t always received positively; this is especially true if the person you are sympathizing with feels you are looking down on them, or taking pity on them. While sympathy is often used in good faith, it can have a negative impact when the person needs you to relate to them, rather than be detached.
Did you know that teaching children empathy skills early in life can increase their confidence and help them better handle stressful situations?
Empathy is critical to success throughout life and is a necessary component to developing positive relationships and building rewarding careers. Empathy leads to stronger relationships with people and animals, and helps prevent animal cruelty and neglect, as well as bullying in schools.
Through guidance, children can develop the steps necessary for empathy: recognize human and animal emotions, share emotions, and regulate emotions.
Animals are a wonderful medium for helping to teach children how to be empathetic. Not only are companion animals non-judgmental, they offer unconditional love and affection, and are a great support system.
"Priming a common group membership may be a more powerful driver for inducing pro-social motivation than increasing empathy," said study lead author Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, an assistant professor of psychobiology at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
Bartal launched the study in 2014 as a postdoctoral Miller fellow in Kaufer's laboratory at UC Berkeley. Bartal, Kaufer and UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner led a research team that sought to identify the brain networks activated in rats in response to empathy, and whether they are mirrored in humans. The results suggest they are.
Until now, consolation has only been observed in relatively large brained animals—apes, elephants, dogs, and some large birds. This study shows for the first time, however, that animals as small as rodents are capable of empathetic behaviors that extend beyond just ensuring their offspring survive, to actually helping others around them that are in need.
“Consolation might be present in many more animal species than was previously thought,” says James Burkett, a neuroscientist at Emory University and lead author of the study.
Seattle Aquarium is hiring three full-time empathy fellows to join the community engagement (CE) team. Empathy fellows will have opportunities to learn about local marine life and conservation efforts, develop personal and professional goals, and become effective educators, facilitators and advocates for marine conservation, empathy and their communities. Fellows will culturally and linguistically reflect the community in which they will be working.
Throughout the course of a year, as part of the grant-funded Expanding Empathy for our Marine Environment program, the empathy fellows will research, implement and present on individual empathy community action projects (ECAPs) in order to apply all that they have learned to a real-world marine-conservation-related issue that impacts themselves and their community.
Empathy fellows will also support the marine education outreach programming the Community Engagement team provides to our Connections partners in the role of outreach educators, delivering empathy-based marine conservation programming within historically marginalized communities in the Salish Sea region. The empathy fellowship will begin in 2020 and follow a one-year cohort model with up to three fellows per year, with each fellow providing empathy programming within their communities.
Empathy is the ability to understand someone else's emotional experiences. Typically, we think of empathy as a noble quality that we relate to compassion.
However, a new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam suggests that for rats, being able to detect another's feelings may be a vital survival tool.
"What our data suggest is that an observer shares the emotions of others because it enables the observer to prepare for danger. It's not about helping the victim but about avoiding [becoming] a victim yourself."
Rats were forced to watch as other rodents were electrocuted in front of them Analysis of how they responded revealed details about the origin of empathy Found the key reason for feeling another's pain is actually self-preservation
Katja turned a year old on July 12, 2019. In the last year, I have re-learned the skill of empathy by reading her cues and learning that good dog ownership means engaging in self-care and ensuring that I make decisions not only for myself but for my family, including our puppy, Katja. This work allows me to better explain the concept of empathy and how, with a bit of training, empathy can be learned and practice for a more fulfilling life.
Showing that non-human animals have empathy—the ability to understand and share the feelings of others—is no easy task. A big part of the challenge is obvious: Researchers can’t ask their subjects how they’re feeling, says Stephanie Preston, a neuroscientist studying emotion and behavior at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the study.
But some researchers argue that empathy can be broken down and tested through its more manageable components. For instance, you can’t have empathy without emotional contagion, or the tendency of the feelings and behaviors of an emotional reaction to hop from individual to individual even in the absence of what triggered them. Emotional contagion is, in a sense, a way to experience by proxy—and it can come with serious perks.
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