More on Social Empathy

  • Segal, E.A. (2011). Social empathy: A model built on empathy, contextual understanding, and social responsibility that promotes social justice. Journal of Social Service Research. 37 (1), 266-277.
  • Segal, E.A. (2014). Social empathy. In The encyclopedia of social work online. New York: Oxford University Press and the National Association of Social Workers.  DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1152.

Empathy Defined

  • Gerdes, K.E., Segal, E.A, & Lietz, C.A. (2010). Conceptualising and measuring empathy: The need for clarity and consistency. British Journal of Social Work. 40, 2326-2343.

Measuring Empathy

  • Segal, E.A., Gerdes, K.E., Lietz, C.A., Wagaman, M.A., & Geiger, J.M. (2017). Assessing empathy. New York: Columbia University Press.

Empathy Connects Us As Human Beings

  • de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). The age of empathy: Nature’s lessons for a kinder society. New York: Random House.
  • de Waal, F.B.M. (2008). Putting the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, pp. 279-300.
  • Davis, M. H. (1996). Empathy: A social psychological approach. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Preston, S.D. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, pp. 1-72.
  • Preston, S.D. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2011). Altruism. In Oxford handbook of social neuroscience. Ed. By J. Decety & J.T. Cacioppo, pp. 565-585. New York: Oxford University Press.  

Neurocognitive & Physiological Aspects

  • Decety, J. (2015). The neural pathways, development and functions of empathy. Current Opinion in Behavioral Science, 3, pp. 1-6.
  • Decety, J. (2010). The neurodevelopment of empathy in humans.  Developmental Neuroscience, 32, 257-267.
  • Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.
  • Decety, J., & Lamm C. (2006). Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience. The Scientific World Journal, 6, 1146-1163.
  • Decety, J., & Lamm C. (2011). Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience. In J.Decety & W. Ickes, Eds. The social neuroscience of empathy. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
  • Decety, J. & Meyer, M.  (2008). From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social​ developmental neuroscience account.  Development and Psychopathology, 20, 1053-1080.
  • Decety, J. & Moriguchi, Y. (2007).  The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions. BioPyschoSocial Medicine, 1,22, 1-21.
  • Iacoboni, M. (2008). Mirroring people: The new science of how we connect with others. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Iacoboni, M. (2009). Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 653-670.
  • Rizzolatti, G., Fabbri-Destro, M., & Cattaneo, L. (2009). Mirror neurons and their clinical relevance. Nature Clinical Practice Neurology, 5(1), 24-34.
  • Rizzolatti, G., & Craighero, L. (2004). The mirror neuron system. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27, 169-192.
  • Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2011). The neural bases for empathy. The Neuroscientist, 17(1), 18–24.
  • Singer, T. & Decety, J. (2011). Social neuroscience of empathy.  In J. Decety  & J.T. Cacioppo. The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551-564. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Singer, T., & Lamm, C. (2009). The social neuroscience of empathy. The Year in Cognitive   Neuroscience 2009: Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1156, 81-96.
  • Walter, H. (2012). Social cognitive neuroscience of empathy: Concepts, circuits, and genes. Emotion Review. 4 (1), 9-17.

Empathy, Prosocial Behavior and Moral Development

  • ​Batson, C.D. & Shaw, L.L. (1991). Evidence for altruism: Toward a pluralism of prosocial motives. Psychological Inquiry, 2 (2), pp. 107-122.
  • Eisenberg, N., Eggum, N.D., & Di Gunta, L. (2010). Empathy-related responding: Associations with prosocial behavior, aggression, and intergroup relations. Social Issues and Policy Review, 4 (1), 143-180.
  • Eisenberg, N., Eggum-Wilkens, N.D. & Spinrad, T.L. (2015). The development of prosocial behavior. In D.A. Schroeder & W.G. Graziano, The Oxford handbook of prosocial behavior, pp. 114-136. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hoffman, M. L. (2000). Empathy and moral development: Implications for caring and justice. London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lietz, C.A. (2011). Empathic action and family resilience: A narrative examination of the benefits of helping others. Journal of Social Service Research, 37(3), 254-265.

Lack of Empathy

  • Avenanti, A., Sirigu, A. & Aglioti, S.M. (2010). Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain. Current Biology, 20, 1018-1022. 
  • Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). The science of evil: On empathy and the origins of cruelty. New York: Basic Books.
  • Chiao, J.Y. & Mathur, V.A. (2010). Intergroup empathy: How does race affect empathic neural responses? Current Biology, 20, (R478-R480).
  • Gini, G., Albiero, P., Benelli, B. & Altoe, G. (2008). Determinants of adolescents’ active defending and passive bystanding behavior in bullying. Journal of Adolescence, 31, 93-105.
  • Glick, P. (2008). When neighbors blame neighbors: Scapegoating and the breakdown of ethnic relations. In V.M. Esses & R.A. Vernon, Explaining the breakdown of ethnic relations, pp. 123-146. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Gutsell, J.N. & Inzlicht, M. (2010). Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observations of outgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, pp. 841-845.
  • Harris, L.T. & Fiske, S.T. (2006).Dehumanizing the lowest of the low: Neuroimaging responses to extreme out-groups. Psychological Science, 17 (10), pp. 847-853.
  • Harris, L.T. & Fiske, S.T. (2011). Dehumanized perception: A psychological means to facilitate atrocities, torture, and genocide? Z Psychologie, 219 (3), pp. 175-181.
  • Jolliffe, D. & Farrington, D.P. (2004). Empathy and offending: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 9 (5), pp. 441-476.
  • Jolliffe, D. & Farrington, D.P. (2011). Is low empathy related to bullying after controlling for individual and social background variables? Journal of Adolescence, 34, pp. 59-71.​
  • Jolliffe, D. & Farrington, D.P. (2004). Empathy and offending: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Agression and Violent Behavior, 9, pp. 44—476.