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Veterans can now empathize with another group: people with Asperger syndrome and their families.
Research by APS Fellow Jean Decety, at the University of Chicago, showed that even rats are driven to empathize with another suffering rat and to go out of their way to help it out of its quandary.
Their conclusion: Acetaminophen, the most common drug ingredient in the United States, can reduce a person's capacity to empathize with another person's pain, whether that pain is physical or emotional.
It only gets worse when they empathize with another's plight or feel the pain of someone who is treated unfairly: In those cases, they're even more likely to lie, cheat, or steal to benefit that person.
"The ability to empathize with another person is enriched in this context, which is great, especially for understanding a lover".
Indeed, when we empathize with another person's pain, we use many of the same brain areas that are activated by our own experience of pain, a brain-imaging study in the 20 February issue of Science has shown.
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According to the egoistic interpretation of empathy related phenomena, empathizing with another person in need is associated with a negative feeling or can lead to a heightened awareness of the negative consequences of not helping; such as feelings of guilt, shame, or social sanctions.
"When you rescue you are creating space and empathizing with another being that needs the same things we all need to feel safe, shelter, food, affection, and patience.
When empathizing with another person, the affective state that results from representation of the other's emotions must be distinguished from one's own (Singer and Lamm 2009), again requiring the ability to switch between representations of one's own and others' emotions.
The good news is that there are ways partners can learn to empathize with one another.
The pair are linked by their painful experiences, which allow them to empathize with one another's vigilance and vulnerability.
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