Empathy as cultural process : insights from the cultural neuroscience of empathy

• Main Authors: Cheon, Bobby Kyungbeom, Mathur, Vani A., Chiao, Joan Y.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100538; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24240; http://www.wcprr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/vol.5-n.-1-4.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, explorations of the neural correlates of empathy have been a rapidly growing and exciting area of discovery in social neuroscience. These studies have provided the foundations for understanding the neurobiological processes that allow us to experience and understand the pain and suf...