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  • Neural Substrates of Empathy
  • Altruism
  • Cooperation
  • Reciprocity
  • Mirror Neurons
  • Roots and Development of Empathy
  • Compassion and Concern

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Jean Decety and Colleagues


A social neuroscience perspective on clinical empathy.
Decety J, Smith KE, Norman GJ, Halpern J.
World Psychiatry. 2014 Oct;13(3):233-7. doi: 10.1002/wps.20146.  
PMID: 25273287 [PubMed] Free PMC Article

Clinical empathy is an important element of quality health care. Empathic communication is associated with improved patient satisfaction, increased adherence to treatment, and fewer malpractice complaints (1). Patients' perceptions of their physicians' empathy are positively related to more favorable health outcomes
The neurodevelopment of empathy in humans.
Decety, J. (2010). Developmental Neuroscience, 32(4), 257-267. 
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Neural correlates of feeling sympathy.
Jean Decety, Thierry Chaminade (2003)
Neuropsychologia  41 (2) p. 127-38
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A social-neuroscience perspective on empathy.
Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2006). 
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(2), 54-58.  
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Social neuroscience approaches to interpersonal sensitivity.
Jean Decety, C Daniel Batson (2007)
Social neuroscience 2 (3-4) p. 151-7
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From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: a social developmental neuroscience account.
Jean Decety, Meghan Meyer (2008)
Development and Psychopathology 20 (4) p. 1053-80
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Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy.
Bobby K Cheon, Dong-Mi Im, Tokiko Harada, Ji-Sook Kim, Vani A Mathur, Jason M Scimeca, Todd B Parrish, Hyun Wook Park, Joan Y Chiao (2011)
NeuroImage 57 (2) p. 642-650
An integrated view of empathy: psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience.
Hisashi Nakao, Shoji Itakura (2009)
Integrative psychological behavioral science 43 (1) p. 42-52
Empathy: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
Lian T Rameson, Matthew D Lieberman (2009)
Social and Personality Psychology Compass 3 (1) p. 94-110
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The neural bases of empathic accuracy.
Zaki, J., Weber, J., Bolger, N., & Ochsner, K. (2009). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(27), 11382-11387. 
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The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal.
Lamm, C., Batson, C. D., & Decety, J. (2007). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(1), 42-58.  
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Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation.
Mathur, V. A., Harada, T., Lipke, T., & Chiao, J. Y. (2010).  NeuroImage, 51(4), 1468-1475.  
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On the neural networks of empathy: A principal component analysis of an fMRI study.
Jason S Nomi, Dag Scherfeld, Skara Friederichs, Ralf Schäfer, Matthias Franz, Hans-Jörg Wittsack, Nina P Azari, John Missimer, Rüdiger J Seitz (2008) Behavioral and brain functions : BBF 4 p. 41
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Neural correlates of admiration and compassion.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Andrea McColl, Hanna Damasio, Antonio Damasio (2009)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (19) p. 8021-6
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The Relation between Self-Reported Empathy and Motor Identification with Imagined Agents
Marzoli D, Palumbo R, Di Domenico A, Penolazzi B, Garganese P, et al. (2011) 
PLoS ONE 6(1): e14595. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014595
Induction of Empathy by the Smell of Anxiety
Prehn-Kristensen A, Wiesner C, Bergmann TO, Wolff S, Jansen O, et al. (2009) 
PLoS ONE4(6): e5987. doi:10.1371
The compassionate brain: humans detect intensity of pain from another's face.
Miiamaaria V Saarela, Yevhen Hlushchuk, Amanda C De C Williams, Martin Schürmann, Eija Kalso, Riitta Hari (2007)
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 17 (1) p. 230-7
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Changes in Health Perceptions after Exposure to Human Suffering: Using Discrete Emotions to Understand Underlying Processes
Paschali AA, Mitsopoulou E, Tsaggarakis V, Karademas EC (2012) PLoS ONE 7(4): e35854. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035854

Altruism

Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy.
Frans B M de Waal (2008)
Annual review of psychology 59 p. 279-300
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Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees.
Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). 
Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(9), 397-402. 
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Parochial altruism in humans. 
Bernhard, H., Fischbacher, U., & Fehr, E. (2006). 
Nature, 442(7105), 912-5.
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The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education 
Studying How Compassion Manifests in the Brain
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Altruism: The importance of Being Asked. The Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe.
Federico Varese and Meir Yaish
Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History. University of Oxford
Number 24, May 1998 
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“... As you would have them do unto you”: Does imagining yourself in the other’s place stimulate moral action? 
Batson, C. D., Lishner, D. a, Carpenter, A., Dulin, L., Harjusola-Webb, S., Stocks, E. L., Gale, S., et al. (2003).
Personality & social psychology bulletin, 29(9), 1190-201. 

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Altruism is associated with an increased neural response to agency. Tankersley, D., Stowe, C. J., & Huettel, S. A. (2007). 
Nature Neuroscience, 10(2), 150-151. 
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