Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and resiliency have been observed among people who
experienced life crises. Given that the direct relationships between PTG and resiliency have …

" Ethics has been a central concern in literature since the earliest works treating the
purposes of poetry and stories. Plato famously criticized poets for their inculcation of morally …

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present
emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores the emotions, emotional …

This chapter provides a map of current discussions on character engagement through the
concepts of empathy and sympathy in the cognitive tradition. After arguing for abandoning …

Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the
Enlightenment period. Best-known for his founding work of economics, The Wealth of …

Stories about animals helping other animals, even humans, appear regularly in the news
and on social media. There is a tale of elephants saving a blind woman who was lost; …

Co-design aims to bring designers and end users together to improve the quality of design
projects. Enhancing proximity between these actors is valuable in low-to middle-income …

66 Catrin Misselhorn a coherent view of the connection between the empathic and the moral
point of view than with rejecting alternative approaches to morality. The first part of the …

Misunderstanding other people can be interpreted as the result of an insufficient
performance of people's skills to understand other persons and their experiences. But what …

The concept of affordance perception is one of the distinctive traits of human cognition; and
its application to robots can dramatically improve the quality of human-robot interaction …