Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and
good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing …

Empathy is an extensively studied construct, but operationalization of effective empathy is
routinely debated in popular culture, theory, and empirical research. This article offers a …

This article challenges the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign empathy the
status of a virtue. The widespread inclination to associate empathy with the morally and …

In this article, I examine loss, the vicissitudes of empathy, and the existential complexity of
one's subjective life in relation to the lived experiences of others. I focus specifically on some …

Within the past decade or so, archaeology has increasingly utilised and contributed to major
advances in scientific methods when exploring the past. This progress is frequently …

The discussion of ethics in the social sciences focuses on 'doing no harm'and 'giving back'to
research participants, but does not explore the challenges of empathy and fear in research …

The aim of our contribution is to clarify the nature of empathy and its role in sociality. Taking
issue with a recent proposal by Bubandt and Willerslev, we argue that their …

This chapter represents an attempt at defining, in the form of a ten-thesis manifesto, what
empathy might and might not be and its role in experiencing others, including “radical …

The complexity begins with the fact that empathic processes always implicate and involve
the people, animals, or other targets of empathy, even though our observations and …

This article argues that empathy should be considered a multimodal process that not only
involves perception, intellection, affect, and imagination but also the bodily and sensory …