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Several areas of the brain are related to the processing of pain and pain empathy. These are known as the pain matrix. One functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study measured brain activity during the experience of painful stimuli or while observing someone else receiving a painful stimuli. The study group consisted of 16 couples, on ...
Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on other's 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.
Articles relating to empathy, the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position.
In psychology, empaths (/ ˈ ɛ m p æ θ /; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθ (εια) (empáth(eia)) 'passion') are people who have a higher than usual level of empathy, called hyperempathy. [1] While objective empathy level testing is difficult, tests such as the EQ -8 have gained some acceptance as tests for being empathic.
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.
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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).
Empathy-altruism is a form of altruism based on moral emotions or feelings for others. Social exchange theory represents a seemingly altruistic behavior which benefits the altruist and outweighs the cost the altruist bears.