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Roots and Collapse of Empathy: Human nature at its best and at its worstStein Bråten
[Advances in Consciousness Research 91] 2013
► pp. v–vi
Stein Bråten
[Advances in Consciousness Research 91] 2013
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
List of figures
Introduction and overview
I. Infant roots of empathy and mutual infant-adult attunement
1. Empathic participation: When infants feed others and participate in their movements
2. Infant and adult in interpersonal communion and upon perturbation
3. Empathic distress, moral development and dilemma-processing
II. Empathy, dialogue, and their blockage
4. Empathy and its neurosocial support: Mirror neurons
5. Children hurting and comforting, and being victims of abuse and net-bullying
6. When nature prevents empathy, while opening for special talents: Autism
7. When dialogue breaks down: Submitting to group pressure and a monolithic perspective
III. From genocide and terrorism to rescue and altruism
8. How can ordinary persons become agents of torture and extermination?
9. The sole terrorist’s attacks on Norway, July 22, 2011
10. From civilian rescuers to this question: Is armed violence declining and non-violent revolt increasing?
Glossary
Acknowledgments
References
Name index
Subject index
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