PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Metyrapone, Psychopathy, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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There is considerable variability in people"s empathic responses. At the end of the day, there are not many positive things to write about this rescue attempt, explains coroner jacques ramsay, making little effort to hide his dismay. The indifference of passengers says a lot about the apathy of citizens . Kitty genovese stabbed to death outside her apartment. A complex psychological construct where there is no universally accepted definition. The drive to identify with another person"s emotions and thoughts and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion . Empathy occurs when the observation or imagination of affective states in another induces shared states in the observer . An affective response more appropriate to someone else"s situation than to one"s own . I. e. , empathy is an emotional reaction in an observer to the affective state of another individual. Empathy subsumes a variety of dissociable neurocognitive processes, motor and emotional empathy . A mechanism by which empathy comes about in humans.
