Some of you may be interested in the list of PhD programs I'm applying to.

It's still under revision of course, but if you're interested in the same sorts of research I am, these are the people to look at.

I hope it's okay to post an introduction ( Read more... )

This is an exciting group! My apologies for not going through the posts yet, but I just can't help but say "Hi!" to everyone. Has anyone here (an empath) directly been part of Empathy Research other than for autism and asperger's?? If this obvious question has already been answered in an earlier post then please don't flame me. I'm still just ( Read more... )

Though I am part of the "woo woo" family as you call it, I am aware of the distinct objective definition of empathy in the standard sense. My impression is that empathy is the ability to empathize with another person and their viewpoint, situation, emotions, etc ( Read more... )

Please consider taking a moment over the next few hours or days to sit down and complete the VEWRS and AVEWRS research surveys and submit them via e-mail.  These surveys cover a diversity of topics including but not limited to:  energy work and manipulation (whether by natural ability or raised during magickal ritual), psychic and sanguinarian ( Read more... )

A social-psychological perspective on empathy:

Karsten R. Stueber - Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences, MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), London, 2006 ( Read more... )

[Originally posted 11/9/07; revised & updated 5/19/09 ( Read more... )

Empathy and Fairness is the proceedings of a symposium on empathy, held in London in 2005.

Contents:

1. Chris Frith - Introduction
   
2. Vittorio Gallese - Embodied simulation: from mirror neuron systems to interpersonal relations
   
3. Tania Singer - The neuronal basis of empathy and fairness
   
4. Marc Hauser - What's fair? The unconscious calculus of our moral ( Read more... )

(Reposted for introduction ( Read more... )

As of today, academic_empath is open membership; please join at will. However, please stay on topic - woo belongs in empaths, and empiricism in academic_empath.