Background: The sympathy-empathy (SE) system is commonly considered a key faculty
implied in prosocial behaviors, and SE deficits (also called callous-unemotional traits, CUTs) …

Consciousness has been hypothesized to operate as a global workspace, which accesses
and integrates multimodal information in a unified manner, supports expectation violation …

Although extensively investigated in socio-cognitive neuroscience, empathy is difficult to
study. The first difficulty originates in its multifaceted nature. According to the …

Pourquoi, après des décennies de critique, de discrédit, voire d'ignorance, l'empathie
connaît-elle aujourd'hui un regain d'intérêt théorique en philosophie, en psychanalyse et en …

Relating explicit psychological mechanisms and observable behaviours is a central aim of
psychological and behavioural science. One of the challenges is to understand and model …

In this paper, we propose that there is a politics of encounters centered on the body at play
in seeking asylum and refuge, and that it is critical to study how it unfolds from the point of …

Consciousness has been described as acting as a global workspace that integrates
perception, imagination, emotion and action programming for adaptive decision making. The …

Scholars have studied the role of technology in humanitarian crises and have noted an
increase in positive attitudes and behavior. Of interest to us is Virtual Reality (VR). We set …

In the visuospatial domain, perspective taking is the ability to imagine how a visual scene
appears from an external observer's viewpoint, and can be studied by asking subjects to …

Can you imagine putting yourself “in someone else's shoes”? This seemingly simple skill
makes you able to exhibit empathy; you are endowed with it; you have an empathic …