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Many of you tell me your husbands lack empathy. They have little empathy for how rotten you’re feeling, little empathy for how illness has uprooted your life and little empathy for how fearful you are about the future.
My heart goes out to you. Living with little to no empathy in a marriage is tough. Some people have great difficulty expressing empathy. It’s not intuitive nor did they see it modeled well growing up.
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Any child has the potential to engage in bullying behavior. As a therapist, I tend to think that most bullying occurs by kids who are struggling with self-esteem and empathy, but research indicates that kids often engage in bullying due to peer pressure as well. Bullying gives kids who feel badly about themselves an opportunity to feel powerful, and often is the result of an inability to think about the feelings of others.
As such, I want to talk about how to help our children develop empathy, which I believe to be one of the best ways to discourage cruel behavior towards other children.
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'Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil? The program lo oks at empathy, evil and psychopathy from different angles.
Christian's section starts at 02:30. The nature of evil and psychopaths. In Amsterdam, Christian Keysers is studying empathy. Christian is looking for the source of human cruelty. To find out how empathy works in our brains,Christian makes short films of painful acts to screen for test subjects. He scans the brains of psychopaths. Psychopaths do have capacity for empathy, they just don't use it spontaneously.
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What is self compassion?
by Bobbi Emel,
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Meetings on compassion while the world watches Aurora...
I’m in Telluride Colorado, where I attended stellar scientific meetings, held by The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford U., while the nation has been watching the massacre in Aurora, Colorado and its aftermath. The take home message of the meetings is that we are wired for empathy, compassion and altruism, and this operates at both conscious and unconscious levels.
by Lynn E. O’Connor
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As the bizarre courtroom faces of James Holmes start appearing in newspapers alongside the beautiful lost faces of the twelve people he murdered, I wonder: is it possible for feel empathy for a person capable of such senseless violence?
As Martin Luther King Jr. once observed, violence is the language of the unheard. I say it’s time we accepted the responsibility of listening with a more empathetic ear.
by Sam Chaltain
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It is believed by many that mirror neurons enable humans to emulate others and thereby empathise with one another. If true, functioning mirror neurons are essential for the socialization of children, and their lack of function would result in the social isolation typical of individuals on the autistic spectrum.
This short clip explains the action of these neurons and the testing of their funtionality. The case of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome is explored.
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Debbie Custance is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, Department of Psychology, London. She coauthored a study titled, 'Empathic-like responding by domestic dogs to distress in humans: An exploratory study'.
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Melanie Swan is founder of DIYgenomics, a non-profit research organization founded in March 2010 to realize personalized medicine through crowdsourced health studies and apps. One of the project is 'Social intelligence genomics & empathy-building'. It examine whether individuals with certain genetic profiles may have a greater natural capacity for social intelligence genes which have been associated with optimism and empathy, extraversion, and altruism. It has also developed a Personal Virtual Coach mobile app-based intervention for empathy-
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Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is designed to develop the qualities of compassion, empathy, and kindness for oneself and for others. CCT integrates traditional contemplative practices with contemporary psychology and scientific research on compassion. The program was developed at Stanford University by a team of contemplative scholars, clinical psychologists, and researchers.
CCT is designed to support anyone who wants to cultivate compassion for themselves and for others. This includes parents, caregivers, educators, healthcare professionals, therapists, executives, public servants, and people in a wide range of professions and life contexts. No previous meditation experience is required, although willingness to practice daily meditation is a key component of the training.
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A new study shows that a therapeutic intervention called Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) appears to improve the mental and physical health of adolescents in foster care. CBCT is a tool that provides strategies for people to develop more compassionate attitudes toward themselves and others.
It is well documented that children in foster care have a high prevalence of trauma in their lives. For many, circumstances that bring them into the foster care system are formidable -- sexual abuse, parental neglect, family violence, homelessness, and exposure to drugs. In addition, they are separated from biological family and some are regularly moved around from one place to another.
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I know, this sounds naïve to the point of absurdity, especially because what I'm really talking about is power -- the power to disarm an empire, the power to redefine the nation's interests, the power to bring compassion (synonymous with sanity) to the realm of geopolitics. Who am I kidding?
We urgently need to make compassion a clear, luminous and dynamic force in our polarized world. Rooted in a principled determination to transcend selfishness, compassion can break down political, dogmatic, ideological and religious boundaries. Born of our deep interdependence, compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.
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A physician's attitude and approach affect every aspect of medical care for patients and their families. An empathic bedside manner is no quaint relic of the past. To restore and ensure public trust in the medical profession, new generations of physicians must understand the emotional, physiological, and practical consequences of discarding empathy.
One legacy of medical education is overvaluing scientific measurement and undervaluing subjective experiences. The neurobiology of empathy offers hope for those who value the subjective experience of empathy and for those who find comfort in what can be measured.
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Empathy. It’s not something you’ll find taught in schools or practiced in politics, business or the courts, yet it is an essential component to life. Empathy is so fundamental to human development that people without it can be classified as psychopaths. It is a part of psychology that has not been studied until fairly recently but is one of the most precious resources on the planet.
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Think of the lack of empathy. Simon Baron-Cohen, the developmental psychologist, has argued that this is what lies behind the most cruel human acts. There may be many social and environmental factors that lead someone to have "zero negative" empathy, as he puts it, and then further circumstances that precipitate the violence.
But what lies at the heart of such personalities is a deficiency. It is frightening to witness. Like the zombies of old movies, there is no reasoning with such people because there is no place inside them for such reasoning to land. Empathy has no hold on them either, as it does the vast majority, because it never had the chance to take root in their psyches and grow.
by Mark Vernon
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Does nurture really overpower nature? Lizzie Crocker reports on the ‘code of masculinity’ and why the gendering of violence may be the key to preventing massacres.
Pollack attributes this gender disparity to society’s “code of masculinity,” or the process in which boys learn how to be men and disassociate from anything inherently feminine, like kindness and empathy. “Biologically, that kind of empathy is not gender-specific,” says Pollack, pointing to a kind of societal psychosis that defines men who show emotion as weak.
The more these painful feelings are repressed, Marx says, the more dangerous they become. Where women are socialized to connect with others by conveying empathy and sensitivity, men are taught at a young age to nip that urge in the bud.
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Facebook is confronting cyberbullying and online conflict. Can a team of researchers help boost kindness among the site's 900 million users?
“It’s those kinds of kind, compassionate interactions,” he says, “that help build a sustainable community.”
By Jason Marsh Greater Good
Videos: Compassion Research Day at Facebook HQ - July 11, 2012 Supporting the 900+ million people who use Facebook is a big challenge and we have found that understanding the science of how people relate is essential in building tools that help people.
Over the last six months we've partnered with great researchers in the field of communicating emotion and social-emotional learning. We would like to share data and discuss what we've learned, host some of the best researchers in the field of compassion research as well as a teacher and the youth he works with for our summer Compassion Research Day on July 11th.
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‘It was through books that I first realised there were other worlds beyond my own; first imagined what it might be like to be another person,’ wrote novelist Julian Barnes in a recent Guardian essay. It’s an enticing thought that reading fiction might help us escape the straitjacket of our egos and expand our moral universes. Modern literary theorists are, however, decidedly sniffy about the notion. ‘They see the idea as too middlebrow, too therapeutic, too kitsch, too sentimental, too Oprah,’ according to Steven Pinker in his latest tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
by Roman Krznaric
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In conjunction with the horrific stories in the news as of late, HLN’s Dr. Drew welcomed Dr. James Fallon, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, who studies the brains of psychopaths.
“The positive ones are those that make the psychopaths very sociable,” he said. “They are charming, extremely sociable -- the life of the party. They can be disarming in that way. They’re very friendly, but also, they lack a certain kind of empathy. They may be empathetic in a very different way … lack of empathy and connectedness with people.”
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Christian Keysers is professor and group leader of the Social Brain Lab at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. The lab explores the biological nature and neuroscience of empathy.
In this interview, Christian gives a chapter by chapter narration of the book, which explores the nut's and bolts neuroscience of empathy. In the book, he illustrates the science with his own experiences and with stories. The journey starts at the lab in Parma, Italy where mirror neurons were first discovered and where he also worked.
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Replace the Stigma With Compassion... Everyone deserves compassion - Elton John at International AIDS Conference
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The research is compelling: self-compassion (e.g., kind and understanding self-talk) increases people's self-improvement motivation and confidence. However, it’s hard for people to recognize opportunities to use self-compassion.
1. When you’re not liking your child as a person. When you’ve lost the sense of positive bond...
by Alice Boyes
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In the biggest study of depression in older people in Australia, researchers at The University of Western Australia and nationally showed that by educating GPs, it was possible to reduce the prevalence of depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts in their older patients.
Published in the Annals of Family Medicine, the study found that a physician's empathy and willingness to discuss the emotional concerns of patients might play an important role in reducing self-harm thoughts and depression..
The most plausible explanation is that the GPs who received the intervention were more willing to discuss their patients' emotional concerns and that this greater openness and empathy made all the difference."
Vincent van Gogh: Sorrowing old man
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A new cognitively based intervention has been shown to improve the mental and physical health of adolescents in foster care. Researchers found the technique was associated with a reduction in the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP), reduced anxiety and increased feelings of hopefulness. Emory University researchers studied the new approach, Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), in collaboration with the Georgia Department of Human Services and the Division of Family and Child Services.
Researchers suggest that CBCT is unique in that it provides strategies for people to develop more compassionate attitudes toward themselves and others.
By RICK NAUERT
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Although this is still a hypothesis that I look forward to testing with my colleagues at CCARE, I suggest here that practicing compassion could be a major path to reducing or eliminating chronic stress. Self-compassion practiced wisely could help reduce your own chronic stress, while compassion toward others could reduce chronic stress for the compassion-giver as well as the compassion-receiver.
Part of self-compassion could involve making time for yourself to engage in activities that reduce chronic stress. Such activities could include, meditation, yoga, dance, music, reading, drawing, painting, gardening, walking, consistent moderate exercise, hiking, hanging out with friends, etc.
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