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Empathy and contextual social cognition

open access: yesCognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013
Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive process, embedded with specific contextual cues that trigger different automatic and controlled responses.
Melloni, M.   +2 more
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Men with intellectual disabilities with a history of sexual offending: empathy for victims of sexual and non-sexual crimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: The objectives were (a) to compare the general empathy abilities of men with intellectual disabilities (IDs) who had a history of sexual offending to men with IDs who had no known history of illegal behaviour, and (b) to determine whether men
Hockley, O.J.   +6 more
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'I know how they must feel': Empathy and judging defendants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The current study investigated the effects of state and trait empathy in legal judgments and tested the relationship between trait and state emotion in one hundred and fifty eight students aged 18–59. Assessments were taken of participants’ trait empathy
Mark James   +8 more
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The Influence of Psychopathy on Incarcerated Inmates’ Cognitive Empathy

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
(1) Background: there is an ongoing debate about whether psychopathic traits increase or decrease cognitive empathy/Theory of Mind. (2) Methods: using a representative sample of 204 Spanish convicted inmates incarcerated at the Pereiro de Aguiar Penitentiary in Ourense, Spain, we investigated the relationship between two tools for the assessment of ...
Flórez, G.   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Low cognitive empathy and its relationship to relational, online, and physical aggression in young adults in Australia

open access: yes, 2021
There is considerable debate in the literature about the nature and strength of the association between low empathy and aggression. This research aimed to contribute to this debate by comparing empathy as measured by the Basic Empathy Scale, a validated ...
Li Eriksson   +9 more
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Emotional stimulation processing and empathy in aggressive adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dysfunctional emotional processing has a negative impact on human behavior. In children and adolescents, deviant perception and understanding of emotional stimulation and reduced empathic functioning impair the development of important social skills. The
Euler, Felix
core   +1 more source

The Empathy Imbalance Hypothesis of Autism: A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Autistic Development

open access: yes, 2009
There has been a widely held belief that people with autism spectrum disorders lack empathy. This article examines the empathy imbalance hypothesis (EIH) of autism.
Smith, A, Adam Smith
core   +1 more source

Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures : the role of cognitive abilities and empathy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The present study concerns individual differences in gesture production. We used correlational and multiple regression analyses to examine the relationship between individuals’ cognitive abilities and empathy levels and their gesture frequency and ...
Meyer, A.S.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

The Functional Significance of Cognitive Empathy and Theory of Mind in Early and Chronic Schizophrenia

open access: yes, 2021
Theoretical models suggest that it is the interplay between social cognitive processes that result in adaptive social functioning in schizophrenia. This study explored the relative contributions of, and interplay between, cognitive empathy, affective ...
Canty, Allana L   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Mental Well‐Being in Adult Education: Implications for Practice and Professional Responsibility

open access: yesNew Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental well‐being is central to adult learner success, yet many adult education institutions lack capacity to provide timely and accessible support. This article examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen mental health–adjacent supports in adult and continuing higher education, with attention to professional practice and ...
Adam L. McClain, Thomas Wade
wiley   +1 more source

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