Empathy And Other Vicarious Emotional Experiences: Article Analysis

The importance of empathy in any helping profession, medical or social, cannot be overstated. The workers that exemplified it in their practice did the best that they could with their limited resources.

We talk a lot about empathy at Moz, and that’s because the value of empathy cannot be overstated — in marketing or in life. Empathy is a super power. Dr. Brené Brown describes that super power as “feeling with people,” and it creates a spark of connection for the person being empathized with. That spark can be fanned into the burning passion

Empathy is a central theme that runs through the entire book. Dr. Bromfield highlights the importance and significance of empathy, understanding adolescents while balancing the need to challenge and push them. Empathy is an emotion, I value highly as a future humanistic counselor as I believe it can be a very potent tool in therapy. “ As to this day I am awed at empathic understanding’s near miraculous power to soften children’s and adults’ defensive resolve” (p48), he describes the miraculous power of empathy and how it can allow persons in therapy to uncover those other emotions that they may have suppressed quite well.

Nevertheless, put aside of the attributes I possess, I am unable to separate empathy from sympathy. I am a very emotional person. But human service providers should have the ability of not being affected by clients’ emotions beyond understanding. Otherwise, the helping professional will not only be burned out easily, but also unable to solve customers’ problems effectively. Thus, I will keep working on distinguish empathy, which is being understanding, from sympathy, which is putting myself in the client’s positions.

Bohart, A. C., Greenberg, L. S., Elliot, R., & Watson, J. C. (2011). Empathy. Psychotherapy , 48 (1), 43-49.

The essay talks about how empathy has been decreasing in the world. It gives facts about research made on empathy. Like how we can feel the pain of what others are going through. It also questions why people have more empathy on some misfortunes than on others. How other’s suffering touch our hearts at first, but when knowing the details and being asked for help, our reaction changes, making it less empathetic. However, we should increase empathy for the ones who haven’t suffered yet, that way we could decrease violence. The overall idea is that we should encourage empathy not only with out close relationships but with “humanity as a whole.”

Empathy refers to the ability to recognize how others are feeling emotionally, whether it be happy, sorrowful, or any other mental state. From To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the main character’s father, contextually describes empathy as “understand[ing] a person [when one] consider[s] things from [another’s] point of view” (30). Atticus’s implementation of this empathic principle foreshadows his own need to apply empathy in his dealings with the defendant of a court case, Tom Robinson. By doing so, Atticus creates a bond with Tom, constructing a stronger drive to advance through the trial, in addition to presenting a tangible significance to readers of understanding others. This essential quality of empathy is unique to humans, creating both ease and conflict in how humans as a whole execute a pursuit of justice.

Professor Paul Bloom states he is against empathy. He believes it is wrongfully used in our society and should not be used in certain situations. He still thinks it is important sometimes, but should not be primarily used as a result of anger, depression or retaliation. He believes compassion is the solution to empathy. In the long run, Bloom states that empathy will fail or burnout in a person. Hannah the extremely empathic person will eventually burnout according to Bloom. The use of empathy everyday as a core moral code will eventually be overwhelming and burned out and used up. The person will change direction and use empathy less in their lifetime. This essay will explore Paul Bloms opinion of empathy in his article, “Against

Carl Rogers describes empathy as the ability to sense the client’s world as if it were your own. Sanders (1999)

Furthermore, during empathizing, emotional reaction in the observer correlates with the fact that connections between the person’s mental state and his or her behavior are not always governed by lawful conduct of emotion. The response to the other person’s mental state creates a gap between systemizing and empathizing, for without empathetic response, one could only have a very small or inaccurate reading of a person’s emotion. The systemizer only expects that the person’s mental state will at least constrain their behavior. The level of empathy one has is greatly affected by how systematic they are.

Both started out with an introduction, followed by the experimental description and the conclusion. The introductions both laid the groundwork with definitions. The section “A new measure of empathy,” coming after the introduction in the Time piece, is the equivalence of the “Method,” “Result,” and “Individual Difference Analyses” in the Emotion paper. Both concluded with either “Where do we go from here?” or “General Discussion,” detailing the application of the findings.

The author gives a comparison between cognitive and emotional empathy is drawn to show that the issues are found in the emotional aspect, instead of the cognitive side. The author explains that results from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that regions of the brain linked to cognitive thinking and emotion seemed to be relatively equivalent to that of a healthy individual. This study

Most definitions of empathy are based on the same core idea - empathy is the ability to understand and identify someone else’s thoughts and feelings, as if they were one’s own (wordreference online dictionary, 2016). Although it’s been said “there are probably nearly as many definitions of empathy as people working on the topic.” (de Vignemont & Singer, 2006, p.435) suggesting that there is no singular way to even define empathy, let alone explain its impact on our behaviour. Due to the sheer depth and complexity of empathy it’s understandable that each discipline within psychology presents it’s own explanation for why we experience it, and how it can affect our interaction with the world around us. Psychologists have been exploring empathy for decades, in hope of gaining a complete grasp of what it means and how it can vary between each person, therefore its important we look at different psychological perspectives to try to understand it’s many dimensions.

The present study is looking at whether empathy can predict one’s physiological change. This study is using three traits of empathy: others, suffering and contagion. The findings from previous research (Miu & Blates, 2012) and some studies used negative emotional stimuli and the result showed a stronger physiological change compared to positive stimuli. For example, Elices et al (2012) applied three stimuli which aimed to elicit anger, disgust and fear; Sze et al study (2012) showed that distressing films increased more changes in one’s physiology. Therefore, suffering could predict a change in an

Three types of empathy are used for the purposes of this response, as outlined within a paper by Stephan and Finlay (1999). The first is cognitive empathy, which is delineated as perspective-taking, or recognizing where another person is coming from. The second and third are