Comments on: “I Feel Your Pain” – The Neural Basis of Empathy /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/ Health and Science Blog Covering Brain Topics Sat, 29 Dec 2018 04:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Empathy – How Much is Too Much? | Brain Blogger /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-635814 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:35:33 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-635814 […] resources that are needed for completing clinical tasks.Empathy is a natural human response with a biological basis and proves that humans are fundamentally altruistic beings that care for others. But, barriers to […]

]]> By: Belief gives Power to Healing « Healthy in Hong Kong /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-600987 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:25 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-600987 […] – /2010/03/21/empathy-how-much-is-too-much/ & more on mirror neurons /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/%5D My family reminded me that what is most important are my OWN beliefs. And, okay, that is […]

]]> By: MoiMoi /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-600474 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:23:02 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-600474 the mirror neuron theory started during the late 90s….no further studies have been made since then.

]]> By: Situationism in the Blogosphere « The Situationist /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-598151 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:03:21 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-598151 […] From Brain Blogger: “I Feel Your Pain” – The Neural Basis of Empathy” […]

]]> By: Farouk /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-598055 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:43:48 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-598055 no wonder confident and relaxed people make us feel relaxed and anxious people make us feel anxious

]]> By: April /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-598054 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:02:39 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-598054 When we empathize, this simply shows that we are human and this sets us apart from animals.

]]> By: Javaid Akhtar /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597979 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:58:33 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597979 Empathy neurons are hardware…..their suspension is software,.
Most crimminals prefer not to be face to face with victims.Most executions take place with the executioner protecting his empathy neurons by blindfolding/hooding the victim , shooting in the back etc ..
Crimminals who are made to empathise with the victim as part of the re-habiltation process have lower rates for re-offending.
Nazis who had to shoot 100’s of innocents with guns fell sick quickly…so hence the ‘out-of-sight’ gas chambers.
And the Media is just like religion….very adept at channelling our empathies.

]]> By: Margarita Quihuis /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597978 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:34:34 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597978 Do you know if anyone has done research on the following:
– impact of social technologies on mirror neurons and empathy – in other words, do platforms like Facebook increase/decrease empathy for others?
– If in fact, watching is the same as doing, what is the affect of media in general – broadcast media, films, television on mirror neurons and empathy?

]]> By: Karen Prime /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597976 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:30:31 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597976 Mirror neurons… this do shed some light into the question of empathy. I wonder how criminals’ minds work. It could mean they produce less mirror neurons and therefore feel no empathy whatsoever for the crimes they have committed. Would it be nice to dissect a brain of a criminal and that of a normal person? Just a thought…

]]> By: Steven | The Emotion Machine /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597974 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:24:44 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597974 Yes! I read about this in Daniel Goleman’s book “Social Intelligence,” where he says our brains are “wired to connect.” I agree with Javaid Akhtar that we must have some way of suspending this function, especially in the context of criminal activity like stealing and killing. Some people are also just born with less of a capacity for empathy than others. I also imagine that there are environmental factors that can suppress one’s empathy over time.

Great post!

]]> By: Mirror neurons , Evil and WiFi . « Littlebangtheories’s Blog /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597972 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:22:54 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597972 […] /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597971 […]

]]> By: Javaid Akhtar /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597971 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:36:55 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597971 Its interesting that the level of empathy we have for each other seems might have a basis in our sensori-motor mirror neurons…i.e we have to see ( be within sensory reach) to feel anothers pain.
That would be useful because we would’nt be able to compete if we empathised with the competition ( over the hill and out of sight….or mass Media air-brushed ).
Maybe the action of group dance could synchronise a tribe to de-sychronise / & overcome the mirror neurons temporarily when we go spears in hand to kill fellow humans in another tribe.That synchronicity duality would be Media based today.
We co-operate to compete.So somewhere along the line…our ability to empathise must be able to be suspended , so that we indeed to terrible things to fellow humans …as that is what we have tended to do ..throughout history.
I think we have rituals/memes that do this .Dances..music…media ..dis-information…I believe we pro-actively need to suspend ‘ the humanity ‘ of the object of our terror..so that we can inflict productive amounts of terror upon another set of individuals .In essence ..a short cut around our mirror neurons.
Its a horrible thing to say in words….but I’m struck by how we always have a need to de-humanise people first ..before we can efficiently co-operate so that evil things can be committed against them.

Is mass Religion such a short-cut? ..and spirituality the opposite end of the empathy scale ( the side that tips towards more empathy and fewer short -cuts)

]]> By: Why it hurts to watch SAW « hypothetical thinking. /2010/02/09/i-feel-your-pain-the-neural-basis-of-empathy/#comment-597966 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:17:40 +0000 /?p=3854#comment-597966 […] the full article here. Leave a […]

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