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Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience
Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental role in interpersonal interactions. In this paper, we articulate evidence from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and...
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TheScientificWorldJOURNAL
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16998603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.221 |
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author | Decety, Jean Lamm, Claus |
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description | Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental role in interpersonal interactions. In this paper, we articulate evidence from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and argue that empathy involves both emotion sharing (bottom-up information processing) and executive control to regulate and modulate this experience (top-down information processing), underpinned by specific and interacting neural systems. Furthermore, awareness of a distinction between the experiences of the self and others constitutes a crucial aspect of empathy. We discuss data from recent behavioral and functional neuroimaging studies with an emphasis on the perception of pain in others, and highlight the role of different neural mechanisms that underpin the experience of empathy, including emotion sharing, perspective taking, and emotion regulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-59172912018-06-03 Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience Decety, Jean Lamm, Claus ScientificWorldJournal Review Article Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental role in interpersonal interactions. In this paper, we articulate evidence from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, and argue that empathy involves both emotion sharing (bottom-up information processing) and executive control to regulate and modulate this experience (top-down information processing), underpinned by specific and interacting neural systems. Furthermore, awareness of a distinction between the experiences of the self and others constitutes a crucial aspect of empathy. We discuss data from recent behavioral and functional neuroimaging studies with an emphasis on the perception of pain in others, and highlight the role of different neural mechanisms that underpin the experience of empathy, including emotion sharing, perspective taking, and emotion regulation. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2006-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5917291/ /pubmed/16998603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.221 Text en Copyright © 2006 Jean Decety and Claus Lamm. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Decety, Jean Lamm, Claus Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title | Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title_full | Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title_fullStr | Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title_full_unstemmed | Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title_short | Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience |
title_sort | human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917291/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16998603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.221 |
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