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Culture of Empathy Builder:  Chad Woodruff

Contemporary Perspectives on Empathy,
Compassion and Self-Compassion

Chad Woodruff

Chad Woodruff is a Cognitive Neuroscientist who uses neuroimaging techniques  to investigate social and cognitive processes. Chad has had extensive experience as a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, and an assistant professor with neuroimaging and has mentored undergraduate students in the use of these techniques for 10 years.
 

He is co-editor of, The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion. The book provides contemporary perspectives on the three related domains of empathy, compassion and self-compassion.

 

It informs current research, stimulates further research endeavors, and encourages continued and creative philosophical and scientific inquiry into the critical societal constructs of empathy and compassion.

 

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The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion



The Neuroscience of Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion provides contemporary perspectives on the three related domains of empathy, compassion and self-compassion (ECS). It informs current research, stimulates further research endeavors, and encourages continued and creative philosophical and scientific inquiry into the critical societal constructs of ECS.

 

Examining the growing number of electrocortical (EEG Power Spectral, Coherence, Evoked Potential, etc.) studies and the sizeable body of exciting neuroendocrine research (e.g., oxytocin, dopamine, etc.) that have accumulated over decades, this reference is a unique and comprehensive approach to empathy, compassion and self-compassion.

 

Key Features

  • Provides perspectives on empathy, compassion and self-compassion (ECS), including discussions of cruelty, torture, killings, homicides, suicides, terrorism and other examples of empathy/compassion erosion

  • Addresses autonomic nervous system (vagal) reflections of ECS

  • Discusses recent findings and understanding of ECS from mirror neuron research

  • Covers neuroendocrine manifestations of ECS and self-compassion and the neuroendocrine enhancement

  • Examines the neuroscience research on the enhancement of EC

  • Includes directed-meditations (mindfulness, mantra, Metta, etc.) and their effects on ECS and the brain

 

 

Table of Contents


Chapter 1.
What Is This Feeling That I Have for Myself and for Others? Contemporary Perspectives on Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion, and Their Absence

  • LARRY STEVENS,

  • C. CHAD WOODRUFF

Chapter 2.
The Brain That Makes Us Concerned for Others: Toward a Neuroscience of Empathy

  • VERA FLASBECK,

  • CRISTINA GONZALEZ-LIENCRES,

  • MARTIN BRÜNE

Chapter 3.
The Brain that Longs to Help Others: The Current Neuroscience of Compassion

  • LARRY STEVENS,

  • JASMINE BENJAMIN

Chapter 4.
The Brain That Longs to Help Itself: The Current Neuroscience of Self-Compassion

  • LARRY STEVENS,

  • MARK GAUTHIER-BRAHAM,

  • BENJAMIN BUSH

Chapter 5.
Sometimes I Get So Mad I Could …:
The Neuroscience of Cruelty

  • TAYLOR N. WEST,

  • LEAH SAVERY,

  • ROBERT J. GOODMAN

Chapter 6.
Reflections of Others and of Self: The Mirror Neuron System’s Relationship to Empathy

  • C. CHAD WOODRUFF

Chapter 7.
Why does it feel so good to care for others, but only sometimes for myself?

  • MELISSA BIRKETT,

  • JONI SASAKI

Chapter 8.
Can We Change Our Mind About Caring for Others? The Neuroscience of Systematic Compassion Training

  • ADAM CALDERON,

  • TODD AHERN,

  • THOMAS PRUZINSKY

Chapter 9.
Compassion Training from an Early Buddhist Perspective: The Neurological Concomitants of the Brahmavihāras

  • ROBERT J. GOODMAN,

  • PAUL E. PLONSKI,

  • LEAH SAVERY

Chapter 10.
The Language and Structure of Social Cognition: An Integrative Process of Becoming the Other

  • J.A. PINEDA,

  • FIZA SINGH,

  • KRISTINA CHEPAK

Chapter 11.
Where Caring for Self and Others’ Lives in the Brain, and How it can be Enhanced, and Diminished: Observations on the Neuroscience on Empathy, Compassion, and Self-Compassion

  • C. CHAD WOODRUFF,

  •  LARRY STEVENS



 

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