Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture
Bibliography

Empathy in Art and Architecture

Curtis, Robin, “Expanded Empathy: Movement, Mirror Neurons and Einfühlung” in Narration & Spectatorship in Moving Images (Camb: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007)
Crary, Jonathan, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle and Modern Culture (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1999). Foster, Hal, Prosthetic Gods (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004).
Jahoda, Gustav, “Theodor Lipps and the Shift from ‘Sympathy’ to ‘Empathy’” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 4 (2), Spring, 2005, 151-163.
Jarzombek, Mark, The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, and History (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000). Koss, Juliet, “On the Limits of Empathy” The Art Bulletin Vol. 88, No. 1 2006, 139-57.
Lopes, Dominick, Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (Oxford U Press, 2005)
Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Eleftherios Ikonomou, eds. Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893 (Santa Monica: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994).

Empathy in Early Twentieth Century Psychiatry/Psychology

Bleuler, Eugen, Dementia Praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien (1911, Tübingen: Ed. Discord, 1988).
Bolognini, Stefano, Psychoanalytic Empathy (London, Free Association Books, 2004).
Brain, Robert, “The Pulse of Modernism: Experimental Physiology and Aesthetic Avant Gardes ca. 1900,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (forthcoming, 2008).
Brain, Robert, “Self-Projection: Hugo Muensterberg’s Film Theory Between Philosophical Idealism, Pragmatism, and Psycho-Technics,” Critical Inquiry (submitted).
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Clark, Kenneth B. “Empathy, a Neglected Topic in Psychological Research” American Psychologist, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Feb. 1980), 187-190.
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Lanzoni, Susan, “An Epistemology of the Clinic: Ludwig Binswanger’s Phenomenology of the Other” Critical Inquiry 30 Autumn 2003, 160-186.
Lanzoni, Susan, “Diagnosing with Feeling: The Clinical Assessment of Schizophrenia in early Twentieth Century European Psychiatry” in Emotions, Medicine and Disease, 1750-1950, Fay Bound Alberti (ed.) (Palgrave, 2006), pp. 169-190.
Lanzoni, Susan, “Sympathy in Mind (1876-1900)” Journal of the History of Ideas, forthcoming, Spring 2008.
Lanzoni, S. “An Epistemology of the Clinic: Ludwig Binswanger’s Phenomenology of the Other,” Critical Inquiry 30 (Autumn 2003), 160-186 Leys, Ruth, “Mead’s Voices: Imitation as Foundation; or, the Struggle against Mimesis” in Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930, ed. Dorothy Ross (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U Press, 1994), 210-235.
Lunbeck, Elizabeth, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender and Power in Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). Pigman, G.W. “Freud and the History of Empathy” International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol. 66, 1985, 237-54.
Titchener, Edward B. Experimental Psychology of the Thought-Processes (New York: MacMillan Co., 1909)

Empathy as Philosophical and Historical Method

Deonna, J. A. (2007). The structure of empathy. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4, 99-116.
Gladstein, Gerald, “The Historical Roots of Contemporary Empathy Research” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 20, January, 1984, 38-59.
Hunsdahl, Jørgen B. “Concerning Einfühlung (Empathy): A Concept Analysis of its Origin and Early Development” in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Vol. 3, No. 2, 1967,180-191.
Stueber, Karsten, Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006).
Turner, Stephen, “Mirror Neurons and Practices: A Reply to Lizardo” Journal for Theory for Social Behavior. 37: 351-371.
Wispé, Lauren “History of the concept of empathy” in Empathy and its Development, eds. Nancy Eisenberg, Janet Strayer, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press, 1987) 17-37.
Zahavi, Daniel, “Expression & Empathy” in D.D. Hutto & M. Ratcliffe (eds). Folk Psychology Re-assessed (Springer, 2007) 25-40.

Empathy in Trauma Studies, Medicine and Education

Bennett, Jill, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma & Contemporary Art (Palo Alto: Stanford U Press, 2004)
Code, Lorraine, “’I Know Just How You Feel’: Empathy and the Problem of Epistemic Authority” in Rhetorical Spaces: Essays on Gendered Locations (New York: Routledge, 1995).
Dean, Carolyn, The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
Kirmayer, Laurence, co-editor, Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical and Cultural Perspectives (Camb. U Press, 2007).
LaCapra, Dominick, Writing History, Writing Trauma (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Leys, Ruth, Trauma: A Genealogy (University Chicago Press, 2000).
More, Ellen Singer, and Maureen A. Milligan, eds., The Empathic Practitioner: Empathy, Gender and Medicine (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994).
Schonert-Reichl, K.et al (March, 2002). The "Roots of Empathy:” Evaluating the Effects of a Classroom-Based Primary Prevention Program for Promoting Emotional and Social Competence in Children. Presentation at Ministry of Education Research Symposium, Vancouver, BC
Segal, Judy, Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine (Southern Illinois UP, 2005)
Young, Allan, The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Princeton U Press, 1995).

Empathy, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Evolutionary Theory

Banissy, M. J., & Ward, J. (2007). Mirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathy. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 815-816.
Baron-Cohen, Simon, Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind (MIT Press, 1997).
Battaglia et al, “Art, imagination and reality: the cortical motor network,” Neuroimage (2007).
Blair, R. J. R. (2008). Fine cuts of empathy and the amygdala: Dissociable deficits in psychopathy and autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 61, 157-170.
Bower, B. "Goal-oriented brain cells: neurons may track action as a prelude to empathy" Science News (April 30, 2005)
Corazza, Eros (2004). "Empathy, Imagination, and Reports". Chapter 7 in Reflecting the Mind - Indexicality and Quasi-Indexicality. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Dapretto, M. et al. (2006). Understanding emotions in others: Mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 28-30.
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.
de Waal, F. B .M. (2008). Putting the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 279-300.
Freedberg, D. and V. Gallese, “Motion, Emotion, and Empathy in Aesthetic Experience,” Trends in Cognitive Science (2007).
Frith, Christopher and Daniel Wolpert, eds. The Neuroscience of Social Interaction: Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing the Actions of Others, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Gallese, V. et al, “Action recognition in the premotor cortex,” Brain 119 (1996), 593-609
Gallese, Vittorio & Alvin Goldman, “Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Theory of Mind-Reading” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 (1998), 493-501.
Gallese, Vittorio, “The Roots of Empathy: The Shared Manifold Hypothesis and the Neural Basis of Intersubjectivity” Psychopathology, 2003; 36: 171-80.
Gallese, V. 2003. A neuroscientific grasp of concepts: from control to representation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 358: 1231-1240.
Gärdenfors, P. 2004. Emulators as sources of hidden cognitive variables. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 403.
Goldman, Alvin, Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Mindreading (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Grush, R. 2004. The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 377-398, 425-442.
Iacoboni, Marco, Mirroring Others: The New Science of How we Connect with Others (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2008).
Iacoboni, M., "Understanding others: imitation, language, empathy" In: Perspectives on imitation: from cognitive neuroscience to social science, Hurley, S., and Chater, N. (Eds), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in press.
Jacob, P. 2008. What do mirror neurons contribute to human social cognition? Mind and Language 23: 190-223.
Jacob, P. and M. Jeannerod. 2005. The motor theory of social cognition: a critique. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9: 21-25.
Kinsbourne, M. 2005. Imitation as entrainment: brain mechanisms and social consequences. Perspectives on Imitation: From mirror neurons to memes, ed. S. Hurley & N. Chater, pp. 163-172. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Lamm, C., Batson, C. D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: Effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.
Lamm, C., Nusbaum, H. C., Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. (2007). What are you feeling? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the modulation of sensory and affective responses during empathy for pain. PLoS ONE, 2, 1-16.
Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural basis of human empathy – Effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.
Levenson, R. W. and Reuf, A. M. (1997), "Physiological Aspects of Emotional Knowledge and Rapport", in W. Ickes (Ed.), Empathic Accuracy (New York: Guilford), 44-72.
Miller, Greg, “Neuroscience: Reflecting on Another’s Mind” Science 13 May 2005: Vol. 308. no. 5724, pp. 945-947.
Phillips, A.G., et al, Amygdala control of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system: Parallel pathways to motivated behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 27(6), 2003 543-554.
Preston, Stephanie D. and Frans B. M. de Waal. 2002. Empathy: its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25: 1-72
Preston, S. D., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Grabowski, T. J., Stansfield, R. B., Mehta, S., & Damasio A. R. (2007). The neural substrates of cognitive empathy. Social Neuroscience, 2, 254-275.
Ramachandran, V.S., “MIRROR NEURONS and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution” http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p1.html
Rizzolatti, Giacomo, Mirrors in the Brain: How our minds share actions, emotions and experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Rogers, K., Dziobek, I., Hassenstab, J., Wolf, O. T., & Convit, A. (2007). Who cares? Revisiting empathy in Asperger syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 709-715.
Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Shur, S., Harari, H., & Levkovitz, Y. (2007). Neurocognitive basis of impaired empathy in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 21, 431-438.
Stamenov, Maksim and Vittorio Gallese, eds. Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language (Amsterdam, Neth.: John Benjamins Publishing, 2002)
Thompson, Evan, “Empathy and Consciousness” Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (5-7) 2001, 1-32.
Umlità, M.A., E. Kohler, V. Gallese, L. Fogassi, L. Fadiga, C. Keysers, G. Rizzolatti. 2001. I know what you are doing: a neurophysiological study. Neuron 31: 155-165.
Williams, J.H.G., A. Whitten, T. Suddendorf, and D.I. Perrett. 2001. Imitation, mirror neurons and autism. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review 25: 287-295.

Empathy and the Emotions in History & Literature

Bourke, Joanna, “Fear and Anxiety: Writing about Emotion in Modern History” History Workshop Journal, Issue 55, 2003, 11-133.
Daston, Lorraine, “Curiosity in early modern science” Word & Image, Vol. 11, No. 4, October-December 1995, 391-404.
Dror, Otniel, “Creating the Emotional Body: Confusion, Possibilities, Knowledge” in Emotional History of the United States, eds. Peter N. Stearns, Jan Lewis (NY: New York University Press, 1998), 173-194
Frank, Adam, “Phantoms Limn: Silvan Tomkins and Affective Prosthetics” Theory and Psychology. 17.4 (August 2007); 515-528.
Garden, R. (2007). The problem of empathy: Medicine and the Humanities. New Literary History 38, 551-567.
Keen, Suzanne (2007). Empathy and the Novel. Oxford University Press.
Morawski, Jill, “Educating the Emotions: Academic Psychology, Textbooks, and the Psychology Industry, 1890-1940” Inventing the Psychological, eds. Pfister, Schnog (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Pfister, Joel and Nancy Schnog, eds. Inventing the Psychological: Towards a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

Selected Media Reports on the Neuroscience of Empathy

CBC

"Knowing Me, Knowing You", Quirks & Quarks, April 1, 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/apr01.html

“Mirror Neurons,” The Current, December 21, 2007
www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200712/20071221.html

“Culture shapes how brain interprets signals,” CBC News, July 18, 2007
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/07/18/science-gesture.html

PBS

“Mirror Neurons: Monkey See, Monkey Do," Nova, January 2005.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html

BBC

“Seeing and doing” The Material World, Thursday 4 March 2004
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20040304.shtml

“Why it is hard to keep a straight face” Science & Nature, Tuesday, 22 October, 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2349981.stm

Empathy finding offers autism hope, BBC News, 2 May, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3690763.stm

“Do animals have feelings?” Science & Nature, 8 April 2008
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/246index2.shtml

“Contagious yawn 'sign of empathy'” BBC News, 10 September 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6988155.stm

'Copying' nerves broken in autism” BBC News, 5 Dec 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4491538.stm

NPR

“Empathy,” The Infinite Mind, June 25, 2007
http://www.lcmedia.com/mind485.htm

“Neuroscientists Focus on Autism” Morning Edition, November 5, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15994964

“Is Social Intelligence More Useful than IQ?” Talk of the Nation, October 23, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6368484

“Autism Reveals Social Roots of Language” Weekend Edition. July 9, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5503688

“Scientists Say Neuron Provides Ability to Mimic,” Morning Edition, July 5, 2005
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4729505