Empathy: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

336 Pages·2019·5.399 MB·English

by  Albert K. Bach (editor)

PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, MOTIVATIONS AND ACTIONS

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Names: Bach, Albert K., editor.
Title: Empathy: : past, present and future perspectives / [edited by]
Albert K. Bach.
Description: Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, 2019. | Series:
Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions | Includes
bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019041719 (print) | LCCN 2019041720 (ebook) | ISBN
9781536163728 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781536163735 (adobe pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Empathy.
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CONTENTS

Preface vii
Chapter 1 The Originality of Empathy 1
Tiago José Silveira Teófilo,
Jacira dos Santos Oliveira
and Iraquitan de Oliveira Caminha
Chapter 2 Empathy in the Light of Basic Personality Traits
and Affective Attachment 19
Daniel Meskovic and Tijana Mirovic
Chapter 3 A Culturally-Relevant Conception of Empathy:
Intracultural Empathy among African
American Youth 83
Alexandra M. Merritt
and Fantasy T. Lozada
Chapter 4 Cyberbullying Participation Roles:
Examining the Relationship between
Empathy and Psychopathy 113
Jessie L. Krienert and Jeffrey A. Walsh
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Chapter 5 The Verification of Intervention Program:
‘E – Program of Empathy Development
in Pregradual Teachers Training’ 145
Jana Stehlikova and Lucia Paskova
Chapter 6 Empathy in Physical Education and Sports 179
Gülfem Sezen-Balçikanli
Chapter 7 Empathy, Awe and the Sublime:
Where Aesthetics and Ethics Meet in Experience 197
Despina Stamatopoulou, Jacob Lang
and Gerald Cupchik
Chapter 8 Sympathy and Empathy and Dualisms
in Animal Rights Theories 267
Brenda J. Lutz
Index 307
Related Nova Publications 317
PREFACE

In this book, the authors analyze the feeling of empathy in the context
of the constitution of empathetic bonds that mark human relations.
Empathy is shown as a spontaneous manifestation, natural and implicit,
and present in all human encounters.
Following this, the connection between the capacity for empathy and
basic personality traits and affective attachment dimensions is investigated,
seeking to determine which personality type is most empathetic.
The concept of intracultural empathy as a culturally-relevant
manifestation of empathy that is directed toward members of a shared
cultural/ethnic/racial group is introduced, and its utility for understanding
the particular cultural context of critical consciousness development among
African American youth is explored.
One study utilizes a large sample of college students to examine the
relationship between cyberbullying participation roles (cyberbullies,
cybervictims, cyberbully-victims, and non-participant controls), empathy
(cognitive and affective), and psychopathy (primary and secondary). The
work also examines these relationships by gender to identify whether male
and female differences exist among cyberbullies, cybervictims and
cyberbully-victims across these traits.
Next, a study is presented which seeks to confirm or refute the
assumption that a program of empathy development in pre-gradual
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teachers training has a positive effect on changes in cognitive and
emotional element of empathy in an experimental group of future teachers.
The authors go on to explore the concept of empathy in physical
education and sport from a diachronic perspective. Additionally, activities
for providing empathy skills through physical education and sports are
described.
The experience of awe in relation to the empathic ‘feeling into” and the
‘‘being moved’ phenomenological quality of aesthetic experience is
investigated, as instantiated in the specific case of religious icons-
paintings. This approach focuses specifically on an extensive exploration
of the perceivers’ experience of religious icons in relation to any emergent
aesthetic, cultural, spiritual and religious issues.
Lastly, different perspectives on animal rights activities are discussed
in conjunction with the role that sympathy and empathy play. The authors
then move on to look at the dualism and anti-dualism aspects of support in
detail, as well as the theoretical contributions made to understanding why
views of collective action relying on economic rationality are inadequate in
explaining human behavior.
Chapter 1 – This chapter proposes to analyze the feeling of empathy in
the context of the constitution of empathetic bonds that mark human
relations. Empathy will be shown as a spontaneous manifestation, natural
and implicit, and present in all human encounters. Our highlight will be
given to the context of health, going beyond the functional dimension,
incorporating into the debate an empathetic dimension by way of the
relation between he/she that suffers and the carer. We look to differentiate
between empathy and compassion in the care practices employed in the
area of health. Our reflections lead us to understand empathy as a complex
subjective experience that expresses itself as a disposition for the life of
another, or in other words, to put yourself in the place of another. These
reflections about empathy open significant paths to strengthen the clinical
experience in the area of health. In this sense, studies about empathy can
be revealing of an ethical welcoming posture and extraordinary empathetic
bonds that could be fundamental for caregivers and sufferers.