Empathy Experts and Conferences
 

Experts
 

       Psychology

• Carl Rogers

• Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication trainers

• C. Daniel Baston - @Wikipedia

  •  "research interests are in prosocial emotion, motivation, and behavior. He has conducted a number of experiments on empathy"

  • 'empathy-altruism hypothesis'  - "If we feel empathy towards a person, we are likely to help them (in proportion to the empathy felt) without any selfish thoughts. Otherwise, we will help them only if the rewards of helping them outweigh the costs."

       Scientists and Mirror Neurons

• Antonio Damasio

  • Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

• James R. Doty M.D.

  •  Project Compassion at Stanford

• Jean Decety

  • University of Chicago - Empathy articles by Jean Decety

  • Mirrored Emotion

  • (was recommended for learning by youth)

• Frans de Waal  

  • Director of Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center  in Atlanta.

  • Book: The Age of Empathy"  (preview)

  • Interview with American University Radio. Read it here or listen with Real Player.

  • Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

  • Article : Bodies in Sync - Contagious laughter, yawns, and moods offer insight into empathy’s origins.

• Marco Iacoboni  

  • Book: Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others

  • neurologist and neuroscientist at UCLA.

  • Video talk: mirror neurons, empathy and morality

• Stephanie D. Preston

  • University of Michigan

  • Empathy articles by Stephanie D. Presto  (downloads)

  •  CV with list of empathy articles and conferences, contact info

• William Ickes

  •  Department of Psychology - studied empathic accuracy

• V. S. Ramachandran

      
      Business

• Dev Patnaik,  Wired to Care

• Bill Drayton,  Ashoka - Empathy - social entrepreneur

       Medicine

• Bridget Duffy, M.D - Chief Empathy Officer - Cleveland Clinic

• Dr. Gelo MD -  "The Heart of Empathy" video, Teaching empathy to med student with art.

• Jodi Halpern, M.D.,Ph.D. "From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice"

  • UC Berkeley

      Education

• Mary Gordo,  Roots of Empathy: Changing the World, Child by Child

       Literature/Arts

• Suzanne Keen, Empathy and the novel

  • "She particularly notes that readers of narratives, such as novels, are altered by the experience of reading, and that the experience can contribute to the building of the basic human senses of mutuality and communality."

       Humanities, Politics

• George Lakoff,   Book - The Political Mind

  • Linguist - Empathy a foundation of progressive values

  • Article: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy

• Michael Slote - The Ethics of Care and Empathy

  • says  care-based ethics is based in empathy

      Others

• List of People in the Empathy field - from Swedish Empathy Center

• Karen Armstrong - Compassion - Charter for Compassion

• Jakob Eklund   - Director of The Swedish Empathy Centre

• J.D. Trout - Book The Empathy Gap.

• Roman Krznaric -  writer and teacher working on empathy, has empathy website

Conferences

• 2003-10-(16-18)  - The Promise Of Empathy
    University of Iowa
  "Empathy has recently emerged as a topic of critical importance: in the social sciences and
  in popular political discourse we wonder about the promise of empathy in our efforts to
  overcome differences of race, religion, or national culture; in the humanities and fine arts we
  hope to facilitate empathy by providing an imaginative reconstruction of our own or someone
  else's experience; in the natural sciences of evolutionary biology and neurophysiology we are
  eager to ground empathy in human nature."

• 2005  Greater Good Science Center - Symposium on Empathy
    UC Berkeley
  Magazine section on empathy

• 2006-06-(22-23) - An International Interdisciplinary Conference
    California State University, Fullerton
  The goal of this international interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration addressing the following questions regarding empathy: 1) what kind of process is empathy?, 2) how does empathy differ from related psychological processes?, 3) what role does empathy play in our engagement with fiction? 4) how do we determine whether or not attempts to empathize are successful?, and 5) what role does empathy play in social and moral life?

• 2007-04-12 - Empathy and Ethics in Film and Literature
    The theme may be interpreted broadly, from the portrayal of empathy and/or ethics in literature and film to the way these works encourage an empathetic reaction in readers or viewers.

• 2007-0  -  Autonomy Singularity Creativity (ASC) Conference - National Humanities Center

  • Dan Batson delivers an address on empathy (video)

  • Frans de Waal (video)

  • Martha Nussbaum  (video)

• 2008-03-27 - Drivers of Our Shifting Culture
     A Panel Discussion on Empathy and Ethics
  Bill Drayton, Jill Vialet, Mary Gordon, Keith Hammonds, Kirk Hanson
  "Technology has increased the flow of information and made our decision-making more transparent. In this panel discussion on empathy and ethics, Bill Drayton, Mary Gordon, Keith Hammonds, Kirk Hanson and Jill Vialet consider how empathetic ethics has to begin with individuals and can only then move into the organizations we lead and the societies we serve."

• 2009-09-30 - How the social brain experiences empathy
    Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago
  "A one-day conference in Downtown Chicago
  The Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience will be hosting a one-day conference led by Dr. Jean Decety entitled, "How the social brain experiences empathy."  Presentations will provide up-to-date knowledge on empathy ranging from brain circuits to patient-physician relationships, and will emphasize how many academic areas and applications, such as clinical psychology, education, psychotherapies, and others, can benefit from this new knowledge about the social brain. The conference will showcase some of the most important researchers in empathy today."

  • List of Experts

    • Dr. Daniel Batson

      • Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kansas

    • Dr. Sue Carter

      • Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago

    • Dr. Jean Decety

      • Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Chicago

    • Dr. Frans de Waal

      • Professor of Psychology, Emory University

    • Dr. Nancy Eisenberg

      • Regents’ Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University

    • Dr. Jodi Halpern

      • Associate Professor of Bioethics & Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley

      • Book: detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice,

    • Dr. Allan Young

      • Marjorie Bronfman Professor of Social Sciences in Medicine, McGill University

    • Attendee report - Jim Milles

      • planning a seminar for next fall on Empathy and the Law.

      • report from How the social brain experiences empathy

• 2009-11-(12-15) - "Engaging The Other:" The Power of Compassion
    San Mateo, CA  - Common Bond Institute
  Advancing the consciousness of peace and healing by raising the capacity of the individual in society to compassionately transform conflict in their daily lives.

• International Conference on Neuroesthetics
    UC Berkeley
  2005-01-16 - Empathy in the Brain and in Art
  "The theme may be interpreted broadly, from the portrayal of empathy and/or ethics in literature and film to the way these works encourage an empathetic reaction in readers or viewers."
  2010-01-16 - Time and Timing ** UC Berkeley