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Empathy Forums:
Bridging the Empathy Gap
idea forum on Change.org
Empathy Now
Ning.com group -
Forum for Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
NVC_EdGroup
NVC in education.
Ning.com group: To spread the word that
practicing empathy is the most powerful action that we can take to ensure a
sustainable, socially just and peaceful world.
Empath Community
Ning.com Are you
extremely sensitive to the emotions and thoughts of others.
On the Human - a project of the National Humanities Center
A scholarly discussion lead by Dan Baston on his work with empathy and
altruistic motivation.
Does empathic concern produce altruistic motivation?
Empathic Concern and Altruism in Humans
A forum on the onthehuman.org website with Dan Baston talking about empathy.
Current Articles
Harnessing the Power of Empathy:
Building A Lasting Democratic Majority By Understanding What Keeps People Up
At Night, Andrew Byrnes,
March 26, 2009
A blog post that calls for the Democratic party to think more
about empathy. Article was placed in the 3,00 bags of attendees at the 2009
state party convention in Sacramento.
Gossip Girls and Boys Get Lessons in Empathy,
NY Times, April 4, 2009
"The emphasis on empathy here and in schools nationwide is the
latest front in a decade-long campaign against bullying and violence. Many
urban districts have found empathy workshops and curriculums help curb
fighting and other misbehavior. In Scarsdale, a wealthy, high-performing
district with few discipline problems to start with, educators see the lessons
as grooming children to be better citizens and leaders by making them think
twice before engaging in the name-calling, gossip and other forms of social
humiliation that usually go unpunished."
Empathy in Supreme Court nomination and Conservative Attacks on Empathy
Empathy, Sotomayor,
and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy
George Lakoff - Sunday 31 May 2009
"The Sotomayor nomination has given radical conservatives new life. They
have launched an attack that is nominally aimed at Judge Sotomayor. But it
is really a coordinated stealth attack - on President Obama's central
vision, on progressive thought itself, and on Republicans who might stray
from the conservative hard line. There are several fronts: empathy,
feelings, racism, activist judges. "
Sotomayor's Empathy: Will It Lead to Emotional Activism, or Justice with
Mercy?
By
Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., June 12, 2009
"Prior to reading about conservatives' opposing Sonia Sotomayor's
nomination to the Supreme Court, I'd never heard the term empathy
used pejoratively. In fact, as a therapist, I'd always seen empathy as one of
the most valuable things I had to offer my clients. For one thing, being able
to accurately enter into their world and appreciate their feelings is crucial
to establishing rapport. For another, empathy has enabled me to understand
something of their essence: who they are, and their very way of
being."
Empathy vs. Ideology on the Court?
by: Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, Thursday 04 June 2009
"Before the president announced his selection, he stated he was not just
looking for someone with just "ivory tower learning"; he wanted "intellectual
firepower" as well as a "common touch" and a "practical sense of how the world
works." He also used the word "empathy" several times. It did not take long
for the critics to weigh in and challenge the nomination."
The
Empathy Dodge
Conservative jurists are just as guilty of displaying the
soft touch -- it's just reserved for those with money and power.
Adam Serwer,
May 27, 2009
"Conservatives have interpreted this to mean that Obama
seeks judges who will act in a narrow partisan interest. "[Obama] said that a
judge has to be a person of empathy," Sen. Orrin Hatch said on ABC's This
Week in early May. "What does that mean? Usually that's a code word for an
activist judge."
NVC Related
NVC -Wiki on Empathy
Empathy and Surfing
lot's of info on empathy, NVC related.
Empathy Is Like Surfboard Riding
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Mirror Neurons
Wikipedia, Mirror neurons
Cells That Read Minds
NY Times Article,
Katie Couric's Notebook:
Nature Meets Nurture (video)
USC
Brain and Creativity Institute researchers claim they have found the part of
the brain that controls empathy. Katie Couric discusses how humans are
wired to empathize with others.
I
feel your pain, By Gordy Slack
Nov. 5, 2007 -
New proof of "mirror neurons" explains why we experience the grief and joy of
others, and maybe why humans are altruistic. But don't call us Gandhi yet. (Gordy
Slack is a California-based science writer.)
Seeing movies increases empathy
“Mirror neurons allow us to grasp the minds of others not through
conceptual reasoning but through direct simulation. By feeling, not by
thinking.”
How your brain handles love
and pain
"Two new brain-imaging studies describing the origins of empathy and
how placebos work provide insights into the nature of pain, the mind-body
connection and what it means to be human."
Feb. 19, 2004
Political - Obama
Empathy Bowl '08: Palin vs. Obama:
Mark Fisher, talks about empathy. He mentions, "Colleen Shogan, a
research manager at the Congressional Research Service, who very presciently
has been exploring the role empathy plays in presidential leadership."
Honor, Empathy And The Limits Of Political Virtue
(an article about Obama and empathy)
John McCain, stakes his life and his nation's fate, on honor, whatever the cost.
Barack Obama is a human seismometer, sensing the needs of his
interlocutors--enemies and friends--before he acts.
by Paul Starobin "You cannot influence a person that you do not make an effort to understand,"
Robert McNamara said in an April 2005 speech at the Watson Institute for
International Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island. "Today we don't do
this. It's a lack of the willingness to move toward empathy."
Running on
Empathy
By Charles Halpern
LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL - THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009 - PAGE 6
Article about Obama using the criteria of empathy to choose judges.
National Character
Analysis on NPR of Barack Obama's call for more empathy.
Obama & Empathy on Dailykos
George Lakoff on Barack Obama's Empathy Campaign
Commonwealth Club of California SF, CA Jun 20th, 2008
George Lakoff
attributes Barack Obama's popularity to his messages of empathy,
caring, and human dignity. To Obama, the basis of human kindness is not
reliant upon any political platform but on the core values of empathy
and fairness. Empathy is at the center of the Obama campaign shows up in
foreign policy.
Obama: 911 Attack Caused by “Lack of Empathy”
The Politics Of Empathy And Barack Obama, Beverly Darling.
Text: "In numerous interviews and books Obama talks about one of the
most important and greatest characteristics that his mother instilled in
him: Empathy! For Obama, empathy means putting yourself in
another persons shoes, having feelings for others, and being able to
understand another individuals perspective."
Rep. Chris Smith disparages Obama's 'empathy
deficit'
Other
Empathy_Wiki
An empathy group project
on Care2. Has list of articles and resources.
empathogen -
"coined in 1983 by Ralph Metzner to denote chemical agents inducing feelings
of empathy."
A paper on empathy. Has
list of articles and resources.
Daniel Goleman: Why aren't we all Good Samaritans?
If preoccupied on self, we don't focus on the
other.
There's a spectrum - self absorbed -
empathy - compassion.
Focusing on self and focusing on others. Takes
noticing.
Mirror neurons are a neural wifi.
Empathy & Beyond, Latino USA -
March 13, 2009,
1. "Poverty simulations have become a growing trend among students and activists
interested in working with people living in poverty."
2. "Empathy Gap: Some people are energized by empathy to act,” writes J.D. Trout
in his book The Empathy Gap."
3. "Maria Hinojosa talks about how knowing other languages can help develop
empathy."
Charter for Compassion,
Karen Armstrong,
Empathy related charter for compassion, won the 2008 TED award.
In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue
By
NATALIE ANGIER NY Times : March 2, 2009
“Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding,. Our
capacity to cooperate in groups, to empathize with others and to wonder what
others are thinking and feeling — all these traits, Dr. Hrdy argues,
probably arose in response to the selective pressures of being in a
cooperatively breeding social group, and the need to trust and rely on others
and be deemed trustworthy and reliable in turn.
The dark lesson of Bernie Madoff,
By
Robert Burton Feb. 26, 2009
About Bernie Madoff and empathy. Did Bernie use empathy to defraud people?
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