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The 'Extreme Female Brain' : Increased Cognitive Empathy as a Dimension of Psychopathology
2016
Baron-Cohen's ‛extreme male brain’ theory postulates that autism involves exaggerated male-typical psychology, with reduced empathizing (considered here as social–emotional interest, motivation and abilities) and increased systemizing (non-social, physical-world and rule-based interest, motivation and abilities), in association with its male-biased sex ratio. The concept of an ‘extreme female brain’, involving some combination of increased empathizing and reduced systemizing, and its possible role in psychiatric conditions, has been considerably less well investigated. Female-biased sex ratios have been described in two conditions, depression and borderline personality disorder (BPD), that …
Acknowledging the relevance of empathy in clinical legal education. Some proposals from the experience of the University of Brescia (IT) and Valencia…
2018
Legal Clinical Education is experiencing a great development in the Spanish and the Italian university context. Nevertheless, it comes with new challenges that professors have not faced until now: students working in the field with people in situations of vulnerability or in complex realities. Given that one of the major goals of CLE is the preparation not only of professionals for the practice of law, but also people concerned about social justice and social diversity, this piece of research looks into the significance of working with students about the key role that empathy plays in the development of their relation with the people they assist. Moreover, we will suggest some activities to…
El Trabajo Social en residencias para personas mayores dependientes. De la burocracia a la empatía
2011
Las residencias para personas mayores dependientes aparecen como uno de los grandes ámbitos de intervención de los trabajadores sociales incluso mucho antes que apareciera la famosa 'Ley de Dependencia'. A través de este artículo viajaremos por esas funciones propias para descubrir un trabajo social más allá de la burocracia que nos precede y más cercano al desconocido perfil social y humano que nos caracteriza. Senior citizens' homes for the dependent have come forward as one of the major areas of intervention by social workers even long before the famous 'Law of Dependence' appeared. Through this article we will take a look at these particular functions to discover a type of social work b…
Psychological research about Social Responsibility factors: An Iberoamerican Study in colleges
2011
La Responsabilidad Social ha sido estudiada por el análisis de modelos de dirección en organizaciones. De una perspectiva psicológica, el estudio sobre qué variables humanas son importantes en el desarrollo de un comportamiento social responsable tiene que ser explorado. Nuestra investigación propone que ser social responsable pudiera ser mediado por valores humanos y capacidades enpáticas, y con el objetivo de conocimiento que se mejora sobre la responsabilidad social hemos desarrollado un estudio en estudiantes de colegio de España, Chile, Colombia y Perú, hemos enfocado la evaluación sobre como los valores y la empatía influyen en el comportamiento social responsable. La metodología apli…
Relationship between Empathy and Cortisol Awakening Response
2016
Con la finalidad de prevenir la conducta antisocial, el estudio de las bases biológicas de la empatía ha cobrado especial relevancia en los últimos años. Diversos estudios han resaltado la implicación del eje hipotálamo-hipófisis-adrenal (HHA) y el cortisol en la empatía, pero son escasos los que han estudiado la relación entre esta y la respuesta matutina de cortisol (CAR, por su nombre en inglés Cortisol Awakening Response) como indicador de la actividad basal del HHA. Este estudio analiza la asociación entre la empatía, tanto cognitiva como emocional, y la CAR en 39 hombres y 91 mujeres (47 fase folicular y 44 fase lútea del ciclo menstrual). La CAR se obtuvo a partir de muestras de sali…
FutureDesign. Reflections at the Limit of iImpossible
2021
Can today design help to improve the world? During the 20th century, it did it. Actually, it has been establishing itself historically in this sense: to improve the everyday life of common people. In the last decades, however, design has become a sort of magic patina helpful to make goods attractive: a dimension of project linked to more the look of goods than to the challenges of our time. By the way, Maurizio Carta talks about ‘futuredesign’ and ‘alternative present’ – a reflection on present helpful to determinate a better (next) future. The present crisis, that is now rooted, calls for a rethink. We must grasp it in order to determinate the change that we need. The Paleo-Anthropocene in…
Rozwitok fachowo znaczuszczych jakostej osobistosti majbutnowo wczitela y procesi chudożno-integracyjnoj dialnosti
2018
Interspace for empathy : engaging with work-related uncertainty through artistic intervention in management education
2022
How can artistic intervention facilitate empathic engagement with work-related uncertainty in postgraduate management education? To examine this, we theorize artistic intervention as creating an interspace of temporarily suspended organizational norms through which empathy as relational knowing can emerge between participants. Drawing on an ethnographic study entitled Becoming in Academia, a nine-month artistic intervention conducted by a group of doctoral students in a Nordic business school (NBS), this paper highlights how an interspace for empathic engagement with work-related uncertainty was created by the participants through three intervention activities: aligning oneself to the other…
End of life pedagogy and empathetic guidance
2019
The scientific progress has recently provoked profound physical and conceptual changes related to the end of life (EOL), and it has been necessary an intense debate about EOL and euthanasy. It is significant to define death as the absence of life qualities and not as a physical end. Hence, the end stage of our life is a crucial and meaningful moment. For this reason, it is essential to try to integrate the purely technical perspective with an ethic of guidance, which allows patients to live in dignity their death. For this reason, it urges to engage a continue and deep educational and experiential co-construction on the end of life, aware of its precariousness.
The relationship between 2D:4D ratio and systemizing and empathy quotients in parents of people with autism spectrum disorders
2011
IntroductionInterdigital 2D:4D ratio has been considered as an indicator of prenatal exposure to androgens, entailing then a smaller ratio more androgenisation. Although it has been related to systemizing and empathy dimensions in the general population, it has never been studied in parents of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs).Objectives and aimsTo analyse the relationship between the 2D:4D ratio and these psychological variables in this population.MethodsThe sample was composed by parents of both genders of people with (n = 46) or without (n = 42) ASDs. The ratio was calculated as the mean of 3 measurements of each hand evaluated by 3 different researchers. Psychological dimensi…