Stereotypes: Empathetic Exploration

Empathy is a key helping value and has many definitions. According to Egan and Schroeder, empathy is a personality trait that allows a person to feel what others feel and have the ability to understand other people from the inside. It is also a state of feeling for others that is situation specific and can be a, “Feeling for and understand of another’s persons experiences” (Egan and Schroeder, 2009). Empathy is a “Basic value that informs and drive all helping behavior”, a communication skill and has three phases, empathic resonance, expressed empathy and received empathy (Egan and Schroeder, 2009).

With children it is not about the amount of empathy they have. As explained by an online article from Harvard University, “the issue often isn’t whether children can empathize or how much empathy they have. It is who they have empathy for.” A youth reaches an essential step in developing empathy when he learns to identify himself and others as separate entities. The second step occurs when children not only understand that people are individuals, but when they can interpret another’s emotions and feel them as if they were their own. Also, It is not only the child's capacity for empathy that is important, but how a child values other perspectives. So, it is vital that the parents take care in introducing their children to social interactions. One safe way a parent can do this is through fiction.

With the roadblocks in Callie's adoption it's been a long couple of months, but she was finally getting adopted tomorrow. The whole family couldn't wait for her to officially be a Adams-Foster.

In most of the research studies, the word empathy is often expressed through prosocial behavior, a note to remember when reading this literature review. The research studies in this review have a

As discussed in Section 1.2, the definition of empathy is by itself a problem and researchers define it differently, measure only one dimension of it, or do not clarify which dimension is the one that improves or declines. Other authors use other related concepts or even mix them with a range of professional values and soft skills. This complicates not only the search process but also the synthesis of different studies.

If you were to ask me what empathy is, I would say that it is the most confusing concept in the nature of emotions. Empathy can be portrayed and thought of in several different forms: emotional, compassionate, and cognitive. I believe that empathy is a necessary and an important emotion for people to feel towards one and another, even if it consists of getting upset or mad due to someone else’s feelings. I personally feel empathetic for people every day because I am very interpersonal. However, the time I felt the most empathetic for someone was a few years back when my grandpa had passed away due to a stroke.

we all may practice empathy; an emotional position in which we all are able to experience others how they practice emotional state. It includes feelings of compassion sympathy and concern. when we feel empathy ,we center on the suffer distress. Sympathy is a passion that motivates us to help others. Sympathy and compassion is a passion that motivates us to help others for their own sake. Logically human have such empathy and it is naturally comes in them. Even day old infant cry more when they hear that an other infant is crying( Hoffman,1981 ).Empathy is an important factor in promoting help in human. Smith, keating and stotland ( 1989) planned empathic joy

A main component of empathy is the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes. Being able to do so is not an easy task, however, it is more obtainable when you have faced a similar issue. In a 2015 study done at Berkley University researchers, Daniel Lim and David DeSteno, gathered participants, from all walks of life, and gave them surveys to fill out that would measure their empathy. After the surveys, the researchers had the participants talk about their hardships and trauma, then gave them the option to donate money to the Red Cross. After the study concluded the data showed that “…

One of the main places where empathy comes into play is in school. Here is a quote that explains one of the benefits of having empathy while in your teenage years, "Teenagers who are empathetic tend to be more purpose

Human capacity for empathy begins early in life. Infants as young as 8-14 months old display distress when a parent is hurt or upset. Skills in empathy may seem typical, growing-up skills and they certainly are. But empathy is not something you either have

To most of us the idea that empathy is a good thing and can be thought of as a no brainer. The more we empathize with the plight of others, the more ethical and moral we behave towards them. From my perspective empathy may be viewed at as a continuum, cognitive and emotional empathy is not so different from each other, although to certain extremes they are quite distinct. Although, we feel so overwhelmed by a waterfall of emotion, trying to shut it out can bring on emotional imbalance. That is, once we can fully understand another person’s pain and emotions that is when we realize we are putting ourselves in their shoes.

Martin Hoffman’s theory of empathy includes information that cognitive development is directly related to the development of empathy (Johansson, 2008, pg. 36). As children grow and interact with others, levels of empathy become evident. Hoffman suggests that there are four levels of empathy in children:

Moreover, they stated that " ¡K¡K(empathy) should be directly associated with socially undesirable femininity/immature dependency and should be compensated by and thus inversely related to the socially desirable aspects of masculinity" (Watson, Biderman and Sawrie, 1994, p.706). Moreover, the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) and the Mehrabian and Epstein empathy measure were administered and found a significant negative correlation between empathy, an expressive attribute, and masculinity. Hence, between masculinity and empathy, there ought to be a negative correlation (as cited by Foushee, Davis and Archer, 1979).

Empathy has been suggested to be a multi-dimensional psychological process (Zaki & Ochsner, 2012) that involves related, yet separate, cognitive and affective empathetic systems such as affective sharing, perspective-taking, and cognitive appraisal (Hein & Singer, 2008; Lamm et al., 2007; Olsson & Ochsner, 2008). These empathetic processes rely on both bottom-up and top-down processes, where the former is stimuli driven (e.g., observing facial expressions), and the latter includes the observer’s knowledge, experiences, and beliefs about the observed state (Goubert et al., 2005). Two main components of empathy have been proposed: affective empathy (AE) and cognitive empathy (CE) (e.g., Decety & Meyer, 2008; Fan et al., 2011; Mathur, Harada, Lipke, & Chiao, 2010). AE is said to be the most basic form of empathy and is most commonly known as empathic concern (Preston & de Waal, 2002). It refers to the indirect sharing of another’s emotional state, though not necessarily identical (Smith, 2006); and is also a response involving emotion recognition skills and emotional reactivity (Tone & Tully, 2014). Affective empathetic responses have been found to be an automatic, instinctive, and unconscious process (Belzung, 2014; Chartrand & Bargh, 1999; Dimberg & Thunberg, 1998; Dimberg, Thunberg, & Elmehed, 2000; Han, Fan, & Mao, 2008). On the other hand, CE is seen to be a more complex form of empathy (Shamay-Tsoory, Aharon-Peretz, & Perry, 2009). It refers to the mental capacity to

Empathy can be seen as a major aspect of other factors influencing willingness to help too, for example it has been shown that people feel more empathy for people similar (Frans, 2008) and are more willing to help based on similarity between them and the person needing help, such as similar clothes (Eimswiller, Deux & Willts, 1971 as cited in Baumaister & Bushman, 2011), personal values (Batson, Duncan, Ackerman, Buckley & Birch, as cited in Batson & Shaw, 1991) and other features. This may be because people are more likely to experience empathy for people who are more like them instead of someone who is very different. This can be seen in Batson’s et al. (1981 as cited in Batson & Shaw, 1991) study where participants who believed a person undergoing electric shocks held personal values that were very different to the participants’ values, were less likely to take the victim’s place and receive shocks instead of them.