DLDwomen2012: About Priming Sex and Empathy

About Priming, Sex, and Empathy  
Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

 

36:00 – Empathy, Compassion and Plasticity
Social Neuroscience – a new field
     social brain

38:00 difference between Empathy and Compassion
      how to train it
39:00 Definitions of Empathy
      Emotional contagion
      yawning
     laughing (video)
   Stress –
    we are interconnect being
Emotional contagion – this is not empathy yet
    catch it like a virus
      You have pain and I share your pain – Self other distinction
Difference between empathy and compassion
      Empathy is a precursor and is good but if you have to much
     you can go into distress.
     go into closing down
What we want to have is compassion

 

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