Empathy and Sympathy: Voices from Literature 来自 NCBI 喜欢 0 阅读量: 39 作者: Helle Mathiasen 摘要: Empathy and sympathy fit perfectly with medical practice, but reflection and research demonstrate a lack of consistency in the use and definition of empathy as well as the multitudinous ...
dramatists, and writers have created stories that allow audiences and readers to identify with characters from various experiences and backgrounds, leading to a deeper comprehension of the intricacies of interpersonal relationships
Compared with the affective empathy the students expressed, their cognitive empathy played a more important role in their behavioral attitudes. However, this study found that there was no relationship between the students' perceived empathy and their performance...
Ghostwind from Outside of your comprehension on September 23, 2011: I have an objection to both sympathy and empathy being synonymous with pity. I perceive pity having a negative connotation, while empathy and sympathy have positive connotations. I've often heard many people reject pity. 'I do...
It argues that for young readers who may not yet have developed full comprehension of fundamental moral issues and who have not attained the literary competence necessary to understand fictive characters' mental processes, representation of emotions in literature may produce a problem. Since guilt is ...
(Ickes, 1997), an affective response more appropriate to someoneelse’ssituation (Hoffman, 1982), another-oriented emotional response (Batson et al., 1997), or an affective response that stems from the apprehension or comprehension of another’semotional state(Eisenberg, 2000). In the field of...
James’ incomparable empathy with Maisie and his penetrating and astute comprehension of human relations writ large applies empathy in the extended sense to who people are as possibilities, walking in the other’s shoes (after, of course, first taking off one’s own to avoid projection), transla...
As Stein's phase-model makes clear, only by first passively recognizing and being affected by the other's expressivity, and having my attention drawn into the directedness of her own experiencing do I arrive at an understanding which could furnish an “object-like” comprehension of my friend'...
This kind of knowledge provides a rich, resonant comprehension of a singular person's situation as it unfolds in time, whether in such texts as novels, newspaper stories, movies, and scripture or in such life settings as courtrooms, battlefields, marriages, and illnesses.14-16 As literary ...
In order to avoid task comprehension problems, the participants were provided with an example item to practice with before beginning the task. The Spanish version of the Eyes test shows adequate psychometric properties, similar to those obtained for the original instrument (Fernández-Abascal et al....