Contents // Introduction: Seeking to Understand the Minds (and Brains) of People Who Are Seeking to Understand Other People’s Minds vii // I What Is Empathy? 1 // 1 These Things Called Empathy: Eight Related but Distinct Phenomena 3 // C. Daniel Batson // II Social, Cognitive, and Developmental Perspectives on Empathy 17 // 2 Emotional Contagion and Empathy 19 // Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, and Yen-Chi L. Le // 3 Being imitated: Consequences of Nonconsciously Showing Empathy 31 // Rick B. van Baaren, Jean Decety, Ap Dijksterhuis, Andries van der Leij, and Matthijs L. van Leeuwen // 4 Empathy and Knowledge Projection 43 // Raymond S. Nickerson, Susan F. Butler, and Michael Carlin // 5 Empathie Accuracy: Its Links to Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, Social, and Physiological Psychology 57 // William lekes // 6 Empathie Responding: Sympathy and Personal Distress 71 // Nancy Eisenberg and Natalie D. Eggum // 7 Empathy and Education 85 // Norma Deitch Feshbach and Seymour Feshbach // vi // Contents // III Clinical Perspectives on Empathy 99 // 8 Rogerian Empathy in an Organismic Theory: A Way of Being 101 // Jerold D. Bozarth // 9 Empathy in Psychotherapy: Dialogue and Embodied Understanding 113 // Mathias Dekeyser, Robert Elliott, and Mia Leijssen // 10 Empathie Resonance: A Neuroscience Perspective 125 Jeanne C. Watson and Leslie S. Greenberg // 11 Empathy, Morality, and Social Convention: Evidence from the Study of Psychopathy and Other Psychiatric Disorders 139 // R.
J. R. Blair and Karina S. Blair // 12 Perceiving Others in Pain: Experimental and Clinical Evidence on the Role of Empathy 153 // Liesbet Goubert, Kenneth D. Craig, and Ann Buysse // IV Evolutionary and Neuroscience Perspectives on Empathy 167 // 13 Neural and Evolutionary Perspectives on Empathy 169 // C. Sue Carter, James Harris, and Stephen W. Porges // 14 "Mirror, Mirror, in My Mind": Empathy, Interpersonal Competence, and the Mirror Neuron System 183 // Jennifer H. Pfeifer and Mirella Dapretto // 15 Empathy versus Personal Distress: Recent Evidence from Social Neuroscience 199 // Jean Decety and Claus Lamm // 16 Empathie Processing: Its Cognitive and Affective Dimensions and Neuroanatomical Basis 215 // Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory // Contributors 233 Author Index 235 Subject Index 245