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Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona. My research program is aimed at increasing our understanding of human brain systems involved in both cognition and emotion. Specifically, my laboratory and clinic research currently involves four different, although related, domains of interest:
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It’s the line that left-wingers use to try to stop conservatives cold: “I can’t believe that you don’t have any compassion for the poor.” Liberals have claimed the mantle of compassion for the poor and weak, and wield it as an iron rod against free-market heretics. Consider the left-wing reaction to Paul Ryan’s budget plan. Brad Bannon of US News and World Report, for instance, admonishes Ryan:...
Liberalism cheapens and devalues compassion. Real compassion is individual activity: it is forging relationships, contributing time and money to worthy causes, and showing care and responsibility toward others. Walking into the voting booth and casting a ballot for someone else to go do it is anything but compassionate.
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Classic false choice. Some things need to be delegated, some cannot. Ether or both can involve (or my motivated partly or wholly by) compassion.
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In order to campaign effectively, President Obama and Mitt Romney have to figure each other's supporters out. It isn't easy.
Politically engaged liberals and conservatives exhibit strikingly different levels of empathy. The following chart, constructed by Iyer, illustrates this beautifully: Ravi Iyer, “A Difference Between Democrats and Republicans .”
The more interested in politics a conservative is, the lower his (or her) level of empathy. Liberals move in the opposite direction: the more interested in politics they are, the more empathetic. Empathy, in case you’re wondering, is measured by responses to 28 statements in the “Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index,” including “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me,” “I sometimes find it difficult to see things from the ‘other guy’s’ point of view,”
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
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Using humor and wearing a University of Minnesota visor that matched his maroon and gold robe, the Dalai Lama spoke to hundreds of Mayo Clinic staff members about compassion and finding peace. "Compassion means an open mind," he told about 300 people Tuesday morning at a discussion titled "Resilience Through Mindfulness."
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What do today’s leaders need to create lasting impact in the world?...
..empathic connection can then help us transition from “doing for” others – such as developing a set of well meaning interventions that are imposed upon a community – to “doing with” others. In the latter, change comes from within the community. For instance, a city could collectively embrace an effort to reduce gang activity through alternative community outlets such as a basketball league and employment opportunities....
We need more opportunities to foster these types of relationships and problem solving strategies. In an interdependent, global world, our ability to create lasting positive change will come down to our ability to work together. The more we understand each other, the sooner we can solve some of our toughest challenges.
By Christopher Gergen BY & Stephen
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But fiction is doing something that all political factions should be able to get behind. Beyond the local battles of the culture wars, virtually all storytelling, regardless of genre, increases society’s fund of empathy and reinforces an ethic of decency that is deeper than politics...
The psychologists Mar and Keith Oatley tested the idea that entering fiction’s simulated social worlds enhances our ability to connect with actual human beings. They found that heavy fiction readers outperformed heavy nonfiction readers on tests of empathy, even after they controlled for the possibility that people who already had high empathy might naturally gravitate to fiction. As Oatley puts it, fiction serves the function of “making the world a better place by improving interpersonal understanding.”
By Jonathan Gottschall
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By Sam Vaknin Author of “Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited”
Narcissists and psychopaths also appear to be “empathizing” with their possessions: objects, pets, and their sources of narcissistic supply or material benefits (often their nearest and dearest, significant others, or “friends” and associates). But this is not real empathy: it is a mere projection of the narcissist’s or psychopath’s own insecurities and fears, needs and wishes, fantasies and priorities. This kind of displayed “empathy” usually vanishes the minute its subject ceases to play a role in the narcissist’s or psychopath’s life and his psychodynamic processes.
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Psychiatrist Park Jin-seng shared tips on coping with people in crisis, emphasizing that a good listener has the power to prevent suicide. “In some ways, listening is more important than talking,” says Park. When conversing with someone who is deeply depressed, it is important to listen calmly, carefully and with patience.”
Empathy is key “Empathy is the single most important thing,” says Park. “Through understanding, we allow others to feel loved, less alone, and cared about. This lessens their burden.”
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Hunger Games: How Controversial Books Build 'Empathy Muscles'
Nothing is more important than teaching compassion (Vinciane Rycroft, The Guardian, April 13, 2012)
Human Kindness Genes Withstand Threats and Fear (Maia Szalavitz, TIME, April 16, 2012)
The Rise Of Empathy In America (Arianna Huffington, FastCoExist, April 18)
Cultivating Empathy (Discussion on Social Edge, April 2012)
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I’m sitting in the main dining room at school, wondering where the lettuce came from,' Carolyn Newberry, 19, told me.
Score a point for the Empathy Experiment. Capital University in Bexley is in the second year of a program (www.empathy.capital.edu) aimed at answering this question: Can empathy be taught? It’s a walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes experience in which a few students spend six weeks immersing themselves in a social problem — this year, nutrition.
by Joe Blundo
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did a little video for a great project called "start empathy" they'll have an official website for it in mid may...
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The basics of social behavior come from the brain’s emotional system, which is an important contributor to empathy and morality from infancy through adulthood. Babies often cry when they hear another baby crying, because knowing that another person is unhappy makes them feel bad. Even rats will work to help another rat who seems to be in distress. So some precursors of social skills are probably built into the brain, but experience also influences how well children understand and respond to the needs of other people.
.. True empathy, the ability to appreciate and talk about other people’s feelings, develops by age five.
by Sandra Aamodt
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Video version of the Robert O. Schulze Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies Inaugural Lecture, delivered by Dr. Michael J. Kimball on September 20, 2007, at the University of Northern Colorado.
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Al Kaszniak, Ph.D., is currently Head of the Department of Psychology, Director of Clinical Neuropsychology, Director of the Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Education Core, and a professor in the departments of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry at The University of Arizona.
His work has focused on the neuropsychology of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurological disorders, memory self-monitoring, the biological bases of emotion, and emotion response and regulation in long-term Zen and Vipassana meditators. He is a co-founder and frequent guest at Upaya Zen Center's Zen Brain conference, co-created with Roshi Joan Halifax.
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The last decade has witnessed enormous growth in the neuroscience of empathy. Here, we survey research in this domain with an eye toward evaluating its strengths and weaknesses. First, we take stock of the notable progress made by early research in characterizing the neural systems supporting two empathic sub-processes: sharing others' internal states and explicitly considering those states. Second, we describe methodological and conceptual pitfalls into which this work has sometimes fallen, which can limit its validity...
Jamil Zaki & Kevin Ochsner
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Support for building a global wordwide culture of empathy continues to grow.
The total supporter signups of the various groups the Empathy Center manages hit 55,000. Here is the breakdown. --------------------------------
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Why are some people trustworthy, while others lie, cheat and steal? Part of the answer may reside in a hormone called oxytocin. Claremont Graduate University's Paul Zak talks with WSJ's Gary Rosen about how a "vampire wedding" helped him understand how this chemical works to control trust, empathy and virtue.
Could a single molecule—one chemical substance—lie at the very center of our moral lives?...
In our blood and in the brain, oxytocin appears to be the chemical elixir that creates bonds of trust not just in our intimate relationships but also in our business dealings, in politics and in society at large.
By PAUL J. ZAK
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Annelene Decaux is a spiritual teacher and life coach who specializes in catalyzing people around the world into living their dreams, making their unique contribution to the world, and reaching their full potential.
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Empathy is predicated upon and must, therefore, incorporate the following elements: Imagination which is dependent on the ability to imagine;
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Meng believes that world peace can be achieved -- but only if people cultivate the conditions for inner peace within themselves...
The other two domains involve inter-personal intelligence, or intelligence about other people. These are empathy and social skills. Compassion is integral to the last two domains. In a way, compassion involves training your mind to develop empathy, but at the same time, is also the output, it's the beneficiary of training social skills. That's the relationship between compassion and emotional intelligence.
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That is the call of compassion, “to suffer with,” and to strive to alleviate that suffering. To recognize the inherent dignity of the individual is to recognize what it is that causes his or her suffering. Compassion seeks to soothe and eliminate the suffering and cure the disease. Empathy looks to understand and label the suffering while treating the symptoms, from as great a distance as possible.
by STEVE KENNY (KEVIN DAVITT)
[one view of the difference between empathy and compassion. I don't find it accuate with existing definitions.. here are mine http://cultureofempathy.com/References/Definitions.htm I hope to creat a dialog about this]
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Drug addicts should not be put on methadone for years at a time, written off and left on the sidelines of society, British film star and comedian Russell Brand has said.
Asked if there should be a carrot-and-stick approach, he said it should be more about “love and compassion”.
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Through our film project, Stand In My Shoes, we're taking a hard look at empathy. We're asking, how important is it? What are its limits, especially when pitted against the competing interest of self-preservation?..
There is a genuine sense of urgency about this issue, and a hunger for solutions. That's why we're not simply going to showcase the problem. We're on a mission to see what can be done to shift our social structures to become more empathic, and we're in communication with a slew of brilliant people who have their own theories as to how go about it..
Now, we're taking the film making process to a whole new level by inviting the world to collaborate online with us on the film's production. Let's really build a culture of empathy together.
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Creativity and Compassion: How They Come Together
A Conference & Conversation with Buddhist Scholars, Distinguished Faculty, Students, and Creativity Experts
Creativity and Compassion: Embracing the Challenges of the 21st Century has been taken as the theme of a year-long series of events leading up to the appearance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the WCSU October 18 and 19, 2012. This two-day gathering of Buddhist scholars, writers, faculty and students will focus on understanding how these two powerful concepts are related.
On October 18, His Holiness will speak on the related topic of The Art of Compassion. The conference has been organized by faculty and students at WCSU in cooperation with the Do Ngak Kunphen Ling (DNKL) Tibetan Buddhist Center for Universal Peace in Redding, Connecticut.
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