Empathic concern : what it is and why it's important
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Empathic concern : what it is and why it's important
Oxford University Press, c2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-254) and index
Summary:"Empathy has received a lot of attention since the turn of the millennium. Barack Obama championed it as a vital but underutilized national resource-famously saying in a commencement address at Northwestern University in 2006, "There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit." As Obama explained two weeks earlier at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, empathy for him meant "to put yourself in other people's shoes-to see the world from their eyes.""-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Part I: what empathic concern is
- A definition - and a measure
- Distinguishing empathic concern from personal distress
- Distinguishing it from other things called empathy
- Necessary conditions for feeling empathic concern
- Empathic concern's evolutionary roots
- Varieties of empathic concern
- Part II: why empathic concern is important
- Motivational consequences: the empathy-altruism hypothesis
- Behavioral consequences: interpersonal benefits
- Behavioral consequences: interpersonal liabilities
- Behavioral consequences: intergroup benefits
- Behavioral consequences: intergroup liabilities
- Realizing the potential of empathic concern
