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John Ruskin in Fors Clavigera defines sympathy as 'the imaginative understanding of the natures of others, and the power of putting ourselves in their place, […] the faculty on which virtue depends' (Vol 3 Letter 34 [October 1873] 627). Recently, a renewed interest in sympathy during the Victorian period has led critics to look into previously overseen
Marie-Amélie Coste, Nathalie Vanfasse
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The Cambridge Sympathy Test: Self-reported sympathy and distress in autism. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Difficulties with aspects of social interaction, including empathy, comprise a core symptom of autism spectrum conditions (autism). Sympathy is a specific form of empathy and involves both cognitive and affective empathy.
Rosemary Holt+5 more
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I defend resentment as a legitimate and necessary moral attitude by neutralizing an objection that points to its hostile and morally repugnant character.
Alejandro Rosas
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Sympathy towards people infected with COVID-19 mediates relations between media use and death anxiety [PDF]
The COVID-19 pandemic threatened mental health. This study examined the longitudinal associations among pandemic-related media use, sympathy for people infected with COVID-19 (PIWC), and death anxiety.
Miao Chao+10 more
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Sympathy for the ganglion [PDF]
Sympathetic ganglia, along with the skeletal neuromuscular junction, have been fundamental in forming our understanding of synapses and neurotransmitter release. From the earliest descriptions of their neuroanatomy and the pioneering work of Eccles (Eccles, 1943) these peripheral ‘little brains’ have given us powerful, insights into how the nervous ...
Phillip Jobling
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Seeing others suffer and enjoying it? The Model of Individual and Social Appraisals of Misfortunes of others in media reception [PDF]
Suffering and misfortunes of other people are often portrayed in the media. Recipients react to these portrayals with different emotions. This article elucidates and clarifies schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) and sympathy (feeling ...
Lilian Suter+2 more
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4. De l’intérêt égoïste à l’empathie
The article attempts to show that the concept of sympathy, taken from Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, allows us to distinguish between the purely egoistic interest (‘selfishness’) of the homo œconomicus theories (which we describe as ‘autistic’)
Emmanuel Blanc
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Emotional foundations of the market: Sympathy and self-interest
Sociology shows the role of emotions in economic life. Sympathy and self-interest are crucial individual dispositions to explain the social behavior that shapes market institutions.
Emiliano Bevilacqua
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Psychic identification. Inquiring into Aristotle and Noël Carroll
This paper proposes a re-reading of Aristotle’s well-known reference to fear and pity in terms of identification and empathy respectively: fear (intentional and propositional) as a form of experience in which the spectator puts himself in the position of
Fernando Infante del Rosal
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