Essays about: "empathic state"

Found 2 essays containing the words empathic state.

  1. 1. Influence of State Empathic Concern and Personal Distress on Ratings of Dynamical Facial Expressions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Lisa Holzer; [2021]
    Keywords : empathic state; empathic concern; personal distress; emotion perception; emotion labeling; core affect; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Inferring emotions from other people's facial expressions is essential for interpersonal functioning, but not everyone is equally capable. Facets of trait empathy (personal distress and empathic concern) influence emotion perception into opposing directions. READ MORE

  3. 2. Empathy for Pain : And its Neural Correlates

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : Emelie Löfstrand; [2016]
    Keywords : empathy; pain; shared networks; pain matrix; empathy for pain;

    Abstract : The phenomenon of empathy has been fascinating laymen and scholars for centuries and has recently been an important subject for cognitive neuroscientific study. Empathy refers to the ability to understand and share others’ emotions and a characteristic of this ability is the capacity to empathize with others in pain. READ MORE