"Empathy: An Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Perspective" ed. by Makiko Kondo

In this book, authors use interdisciplinary approaches to empathy: discuss a new intervention, physical and cross-cultural understanding of empathy, development of empathy, and applications in general and professional education. The significance of this book is its evidence-based interdisciplinary perspective in understanding empathy.

Empathy, a basic ability for understanding persons holistically, building supportive relationships, and listening attentively, includes being with suffering persons, healing, and inducing catharsis in them. Therefore, it is necessary within occupations supporting humans: education, clinical psychology, nursing, early childhood care, welfare, and medicine. Conversely, there are individual differences in empathy, and promoting its development is difficult.


Contents
1 Space Travels and Empathy: A New Area of Educational Intervention
2 Neuroimaging Research on Empathy and Shared Neural Networks
3 A Less Attractive Feature of Empathy: Intergroup Empathy Bias
4 Introducing Educational Intervention about Empathy and Intercultural Bias
5 The Influence of Suffering, Social Class, and Social Power on Prosociality: An Empirical Review
6 The Building of Empathy: Conceptual “Pillars” and Conversational Practices in Psychotherapy
7 The Role of Empathy in Dealing with the Complexity and Uncertainty within the Educational Field: Meaningful Learning at the “Museum Adventure” Course
8 Empathy Levels in Medical Students: Do They Really Change Over Time?