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Psychopathy, an antisocial disorder where someone lacks empathy, remorse, and the ability to control their behaviors. They may be manipulative and commit crimes. They may be manipulative and ...
Young individuals who have callous and unemotional traits (CU) exhibit a lack of empathy. If a person experiences pain empathy they will be less motivated to hurt others, since people that experience pain empathy have distress when another person is hurt. One study showed juvenile psychopaths video clips of strangers experiencing painful stimuli.
Empathy gaps may occur due to a failure in the process of empathizing [1] or as a consequence of stable personality characteristics, [2] [3] [4] and may reflect either a lack of ability or motivation to empathize. Empathy gaps can be interpersonal (toward others) or intrapersonal (toward the self, e.g. when predicting one's own future preferences).
Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. [1] [2] [3] There are more (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others.
These fictional roles embody someone who is highly manipulative and controlling, lacks empathy and who can be overly charming in public, but acts like a completely different person behind closed ...
Compassion fade, coined by psychologist Paul Slovic, is the tendency of people to experience a decrease in empathy as the number of people in need of aid increase. [ 3 ] [ 13 ] It is a type of cognitive bias that explains the tendency to ignore unwanted information when making a decision, so it is easier to justify.
Empathic concern refers to other-oriented emotions elicited by, and congruent with the perceived welfare of, someone in need. [1] These other-oriented emotions include feelings of tenderness, sympathy, compassion and soft-heartedness. Empathic concern is often confused with empathy. To empathize is to respond to another's perceived emotional ...