Evidence suggests that there are differences in the capacity for empathy between males and
females. However, how deep do these differences go? Stereotypically, females are …

The phenomenon of empathy entails the ability to share the affective experiences of others.
In recent years social neuroscience made considerable progress in revealing the …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Cyberbullying is a unique phenomenon, distinguished from traditional bullying by the speed
at which information is distributed, permanence of material and availability of victims. There …

Decety and JT Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551–64.
New York: Oxford University Press. The literature on the neuroscience of empathy, while …

Dehumanization is endemic in medical practice. This article discusses the psychology of
dehumanization resulting from inherent features of medical settings, the doctor–patient …

Meat eating is a common behaviour, despite many people claiming to like, love, and care
about animals. The apparent disconnection between not wanting animals to suffer, yet killing …

In the tenth edition I knew I “had” to do a version that would be “totally the same and totally
different” in response to the best client-focused research over the last ten years.“Totally the …

We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated
interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of …

Watching or imagining other people experiencing pain activates the central nervous
system's pain matrix in the observer. Without emotion regulation skills, repeated exposure to …