Eksempler på empathy

• As noted above, negative feelings play important roles in impulse control, empathy, and conscience.

• Lower levels of empathy may contribute to conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of negative emotions experienced by some children.

• The developmental literature points to at least 6 levels of empathy emerging in succession, each expanding and adding to the repertoire of empathic potential.

• The major focus of the 24- and 36-month visits is on parenting and toddler self-regulation (behavior problems, empathy, compliance, and internalization of parental rules).

• Examples include empathy, flexibility, sensitivity and courage, precise qualities varying according to the individual.

• Developing representations of possibilities for prosocial actions are also important in developing outcomes for empathy and guilt.

• Moreover, peer play forces children to reason about others' feelings, possibly serving as a unique mechanism for empathy development.

• In the present study we assess the third component, empathy, by children's self-repor ts of affective response to social stimuli.

• Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expression, which triggers empathy).

• Many respondents showed tremendous empathy for ex-combatants and emphasised that they would not normally commit atrocities.

• And while she addresses them with empathy, she cannot give them voice, for they have never learned to speak for themselves.

• It may be that the addition of sympathy, in the primitive sense of emotional contagion, to perspective taking is sufficient to constitute empathy.

• It confers on the various perspectives on empathy only a specious nominal unity.

• Goals for future research include determining the ways in which empathy is emotion-specific and dependent on overt or covert perception.

• In a cosmopolitan society suitable objects of empathy are available ad lib.