News tagged with empathy
Mouse study reveals genetic component of empathy
The ability to empathize with others is partially determined by genes, according to new research on mice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Chimpanzees' contagious yawning evidence of empathy, not just sleepiness, study shows
Contagious yawning is not just a marker of sleepiness or boredom. For chimpanzees, it may actually be a sign of a social connection between individuals.
Apr 06, 2011 |
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The empathy gap in bullying
Taunted, harassed and pushed to a deadly breaking point. Last year, stories of teen bullying brought to life the heartbreaking consequences of young lives cut short by ruthless and unchecked behavior. Recent media coverage ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Empathy and violence have similar circuits in the brain
Researchers from the University of Valencia, Spain, have resumed the brain structures involved with empathy, in other words the ability to put oneself in another person's position, and carried out a scientific ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Ability to literally imagine oneself in another's shoes may be tied to empathy
New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space -- including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else's shoes -- may be related to how ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness
Social isolation affects how people behave as well as how their brains operate, a study at the University of Chicago shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Research raises new questions about animal empathy
The emotions of rats and mice and the mental infrastructure behind them promise to illuminate the nature of human emotions, including empathy and nurturance, a Washington State University neuroscientist writes in this Friday's ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Women are better at forgiving: study
A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has carried out the first Spanish study into the emotional differences between the sexes and generations in terms of forgiveness. According to the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 18, 2011 |
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A psychopath lacks empathy just like a person with frontal head injury
People diagnosed as psychopathic have difficulty showing empathy, just like patients who have suffered frontal head injury. This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. "Our findings show that people who ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Children under 4 and children with autism don't yawn contagiously
If someone near you yawns, do you yawn, too? About half of adults yawn after someone else does in a phenomenon called contagious yawning. Now a new study has found that most children aren't susceptible to contagious yawning ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Empathy: College students don't have as much as they used to
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 27, 2010 |
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Racial bias clouds ability to feel others' pain
When people witness or imagine the pain of another person, their nervous system responds in essentially the same way it would if they were feeling that pain themselves. Now, researchers reporting online on May 27th in Current Bi ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 27, 2010 |
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Hormone spray improves male sensitivity
Many women have no doubt been waiting a long time for this: the neuropeptide oytocin enhances male empathy. This substance also increases sensitivity to so-called "social multipliers", such as approving or disapproving looks. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Race and empathy matter on neural level
Race matters on a neurological level when it comes to empathy for African-Americans in distress, according to a new Northwestern University study.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Music in speech equals empathy in heart?
Some people are annoyed by upspeak: the habit of making a sentence sound like a question?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Empathy
Empathy is the capability to share and understand another's emotions and feelings. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes," Empathy does not necessarily imply compassion, sympathy, or empathic concern because this capacity can be present in context of compassionate or cruel behavior.
For more information about Empathy, read the full article at
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