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Leslie Sierra Jamison (born June 21, 1983) [1] [2] [3] is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of the 2010 novel The Gin Closet and the 2014 essay collection The Empathy Exams.
A selection of these essays and chapters appeared in 2022 under the title Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader. Keen published an article in 2006 proposing a theory of narrative empathy, while highlighting the processes and techniques of neuroscientific and psychological investigation of empathy.
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.
The Atlantic has written that the intention behind the essay was to inspire "self-reflection, enhancing their capacity for empathy and compassion". [7] It has been described by Vice as one of the most authoritative texts on the subject of white privilege, [8] and The Harvard Gazette have called it a "groundbreaking article" and the most important of McIntosh's academic career. [9]
The University of Michigan is where Rogerian argument was given its name by Anatol Rapoport and others. In the 1960s, Rapoport had helped put Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute at the center of the use of game theory in psychological research. [5]
Carol Bly (April 16, 1930 – December 21, 2007) was an American teacher and an author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing.Her work often featured Minnesota women who must identify the moral crisis that is facing their community or themselves and enact change through empathy, or opening one's eyes to the realities of the situation.
Mar et al., in a study of 94 participants, identified that the primary mode of literature that increases empathy is fiction, as opposed to non-fiction. [5] Other studies verify these results and go on to specify that active fiction in particular engages with the reader and affects the reader’s empathy, at the very least in adults, rather than passive, entertainment fiction. [6]
Brown has studied the topics of courage, vulnerability, shame, empathy, and leadership, which she has used to look at human connection and how it works. [9] She has spent her research career as a professor at her alma mater, the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work.