Causal cognition emerges early in development and confers an important advantage for
survival. But does this mean that it is universal in humans? Our cross-disciplinary review …

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 …

Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and
acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices …

Paid home care is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and millions
of Americans rely on these workers to help them remain at home as they grow older …

Do the emotional responses of students and to traumatic conflict constitute insurmountable
obstacles in peace education efforts? How do hegemonic narratives shape the emotions of …

End-of-life issues are increasingly central to discussions within medical anthropology, the
anthropology of political action, and the study of Buddhist philosophy and practice. Felicity …

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 …

Empathy is an increasingly popular term in the public sphere and in academia. Although the
common belief is that empathy is a “psychological” topic, sociologists have made important …

Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past is a comprehensive
consideration of the role of empathy in historical knowledge, informed by the literature on …

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 …