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Emerging Issues in the Cross-Cultural Study of Empathy
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Especially since the discovery of mirror neurons, scholars in a variety of disciplines have made empathy a central focus of research. Yet despite this recent flurry of interest and activity, the cross-cultural study of empathy in context, as part of ongoing, naturally occurring behavior, remains in its infancy. In the present article, I review some of this recent work on the ethnography of empathy. I focus especially on the new issues and questions about empathy that the ethnographic approach raises and the implication of these for the study of empathy more generally.
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“Although the affective side of this process is primarily referenced, in intercultural comparison, there are many places in the world (such as the Pacific region), in which there is no clear distinction between empathy and compassion, or love.Empathy manifests itself there in compassionate action, and not merely in an attitude of understanding.”
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“Basic empathy is based on a specific experience of the other, which is not due to cognitively demanding interpretations or internal simulations of the behaviour of the other ('theory theory' and 'simulation theory'), but on the direct and quick understanding of the other through the perception of his or her corporal expression and behaviour.”
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“The concept of empathy presented here corresponds only partially with the everyday understanding of 'understanding' in other cultures (see Hollan 2012).”
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“We can call this complex or narrative empathy, which is associated with stronger cognitive abilities, such as perspective taking: 'Complex empathy refers to our more or less conscious attempts to know and understand why other people act in the way they do' (Hollan 2012: 71).”
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“Finally, it should be emphasized that empathy itself is subject to a culturally moral evaluation: not all cultures value empathy.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hollan, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hollan, Douglas
- ORCID
- Hollan, Douglas
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 70-78
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- OpenAlex
- W2138528785
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 14.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Keywords
- empathy, cross-cultural comparison, mirror neurons
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