Updated October 10, 2009
The Swedish Empathy Center recommends the following articles in other journals:
Ancel, G. (2006). Developing empathy in nurses: An inservice training program. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 20, 249-257.
Andrew, J., Cooke, M., & Muncer, S. J. (2008).The relationship between empathy and Machiavellianism: An alternative to empathizing-systemizing theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 1203-1211.
Banissy, M. J., & Ward, J. (2007). Mirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathy. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 815-816.
Banissy, M. J., & Ward, J. (2008). Review of on being moved: From mirror neurons to empathy (vol. 68, advances in consciousness research). Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 13(1), 50-51.
Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2004). The empathy quotient: An investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. Journal of Autism and Development Disorders, 34, 163-175.
Batson, C. D., Lishner, D. A., Cook, J., & Sawyer, S. (2005). Similarity and nurturance: Two possible sources of empathy for strangers. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27, 15-25.
Blair, R. J. R. (2005). Responding to the emotions of others: Dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal. Special Issue: The Brain and Its Self, 14, 698-718.
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.
Block-Lerner, J., Adair, C., Plumb, J. C., Rhatigan, D. L., & Orsillo, S. M. (2007). The case of mindfulness-based approaches in the cultivation of empathy: Does non-judgmental, present-moment awareness increase capacity for perspective-taking and empathy? Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 33, 501-516.
Bohlin, H. (2009). Intuitively assessed reasonableness as a criterion of validity in empathetic understanding. Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 10, s. 107-131.
Bramham, J. (2008). Review of Empathy in mental illness. Psychological Medicine, 38, 766-767.
Brill, A. A. (1920). The empathic index and personality. Medical Records, 97, 131-134.
Bufalari, I., Aprile, T., Aventanti, A., Di Russo, F., & Aglioti, S. M. (2008). Empathy for pain and touch in the human somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 2553-2561.
Cheng, Y., Lin, C., Liu, H. L., Hsu, Y., Lim, K., Hung, D., & Decety, J. (2007). Expertise modulates the perception of pain in others. Current Biology, 17, 1708-1713.
Cundiff, N. L., & Komarraju, M. (2008). Gender differences in ethnocultural empathy and attitudes toward men and women in authority. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 15(1), 5-15.
Cottrell, L. S., Jr., & Dymond, R. F. (1949).The empathic responses: a neglected field for research. Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, 12, 355-359.
Dadds, M. R., Hunter, K., Hawes, D. J., Frost, A. D., Vassallo, S., Bunn, P., Merz, S., & Masry, Y. E. (2008). A measure of cognitive and affective empathy in children using parent ratings. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 39, 111-122.
Decety, J., & Batson, C. D. (2007). Social neuroscience approaches to interpersonal sensitivity. Social Neuroscience, 2, 151-157
Decety, J., & Grezes, J. (2006). The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior. Brain Research, 1079, 4-14.
Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.
Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2006). A social neuroscience perspective on empathy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 54-58.
Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2006). Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscience. The Scientific World Journal, 6, 1146–1163.
Decety, J., & Moriguchi, Y. (2007). The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions. Biopsychosocial Medicine, 1, 22-65.
Deigh, J. (1995). Empathy and universalizability. Ethics, 105, 743-763.
Deonna, J. A. (2007). The structure of empathy. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4, 99-116.
de Paúl, J., Pérez-Albéniz, A., Guibert, M., Asla, N., & Ormaechea, A. (2008). Dispositional empathy in neglectful mothers and mothers at high risk for child physical abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23(5), 670-684.
de Schweinitz, P. (2008). When empathy gets old: Practical advice from the theatre. Family Medicine, 40, 318-320.
de Waal, F. B .M. (2008). Putting the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 279-300.
Duan, C., & Kivlighan, D. (2002). Relationships among pressesion mood, therapist empathy and session outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 12, 23-37.
Dymond, R. F. (1948). A preliminary investigation of the relation of insight and empathy. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 12, 228-233.
Dymond, R. F. (1949). A scale for the measurement of empathic ability. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 13, 127-133.
Dziobek, I., Rogers, K., Fleck, S., Bahnemann, M., Heekeren, H. R., Wolf, O. T., & Convit, A. (2008). Dissociation of cognitive and emotional empathy in adults with Asperger syndrome using the Multifaceted empathy test (MET). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 464-473.
Fan, Y., & Han, S. (2008). Temporal dynamic of neural mechanisms involved in empathy for pain: An event-related brain potential study. Neuropsychologia, 46, 160-173.
Feshbach, N. D. (1988). Television and the development of empathy. Applied Social Psychology Annual, 8, 261-269.
Feshbach, N. D., & Feshbach, S. (1982). Empathy training and the regulation of aggression: Potentialities and limitations. Academic Psychology Bulletin, 4, 399-413.
Focquaert, F., Steven, M. S., Wolford, G. L., Colden, A., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2007). Empathizing and systemizing cognitive traits in the sciences and humanities. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 619-625.
Freedberg, S. (2007). Re-examining empathy: A relational-feminist point of view. Social Work, 52, 251-259.
Funk, J., Fox, C., Chan, M., & Curtiss, K. (2008). The development of the children's empathic attitudes questionnaire using classical and rasch analyses. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29(3), 187-196.
Galinsky, A. D., Maddux, W. W., Gilin, D., & White, J. (2008). Why it pays to get inside the head of your opponent: The differential effects of perspective taking and empathy in negotiations. Psychological Science, 19, 378-384.
Garden, R. (2007). The problem of empathy: Medicine and the Humanities. New Literary History, 38, 551-567.
Gladstein, G. A. (1970). Is empathy important in counseling? Personnel and Guidance Journal, 48, 823-827.
Gladstein, G. A. (1984). The historical roots of contemporary empathy research. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 20, 38-59.
Gladstein, G. A., & Feldstein, J. C. (1983). Using film to increase counselor empathic experiences. Counselor Education and Supervision, 23, 125-131.
Goubert, L., Vervoort, T., Sullivan, M. J. L., Verhoeven, K., & Crombez, G. (2008). Parental emotional responses to their child's pain: The role of dispositional empathy and catastrophizing about their child's pain. The Journal of Pain, 9(3), 272-279.
Gordon, K. (1934). A device for demonstrating empathy. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17, 892-893.
Greenson, R. R. (1960). Empathy and its vicissitudes. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41, 418-424.
Hall, J., Davis, M. H., & Connelly, M. (2000). Dispositional empathy in scientists and practioner psychologists: Group differences and relationship to self-reported professional effectiveness. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 37, 45-56.
Hall, J., & Schmid Mast, M. (2007). Sources of accuracy in the empathic accuracy paradigm. Emotion, 7, 438-446.
Han, S., Fan, Y., & Mao, L. (2008). Gender difference in empathy for pain: An electrophysiological investigation. Brain Research, 1196, 85-93.
Haney, K. (1994). Empathy and ethics. Southwest Philosophy Review, 10, 57-65.
Hassenstab, J., Dziobek, I., Rogers, K., Wolf, O. T., & Convit, A. (2007). Knowing what others know, feeling what others feel: A controlled study of empathy in psychotherapists. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 277-281.
Haslam, M. (2007). Humanising medical practice: the role of empathy. Medical Journal of Australia, 187, 381-382.
Hermans, E. J., Putman, P., & Van Honk, J. (2006). Testosterone administration reduces empathetic behavior: A facial mimicry study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 31, 859-866.
Howe, A., Pit-ten Cate, I. M., Brown, A., & Hadwin, J. A. (2008). The development of the Southampton test of empathy for preschoolers (STEP). Psychological Assessment, 20(3), 305-309.
Håkansson, J., & Montgomery, H. (2002). The role of action in empathy from the perspectives of the empathizer and the target. Current Research in Social Psychology, 8, 50-62.
Håkansson, J., & Montgomery, H. (2003). Empathy as an interpersonal phenomenon. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20, 267-284.
Ickes, W., Gesn, P. R., & Graham, T. (2000). Gender differences in empathic accuracy: Differential ability or differential motivation?. Personal Relationships, 7, 95-109.
Kirk, T. B. (2007). Beyond empathy: Clinical intimacy in nursing practice. Nursing Philosophy, 8, 233-243.
Knight, R. P. (1946). Psychotherapy of an adolescent catatonic schizophrenia with mutism; a study in empathy and establishing contact. Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, 9, 323-339.
Loggia, M. L., Mogil, J. S., & Catherine Bushnell, M. (2008). Empathy hurts: Compassion for another increases both sensory and and affective components of pain perception. Pain, 236, 168-176.
Jackson, P. L., Brunet, E., Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. (2006). Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain: An event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 44, 752-61.
Jackson, P. L., & Decety, J. (2004). Motor cognition: A new paradigm to investigate social interactions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 1-5.
Jackson, P. L., Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J. (2005). How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy. Neuroimage, 24, 771-779.
Jackson, P. L., Rainville, P., & Decety, J. (2006). To what extent do we share the pain of others? Insight from the neural bases of pain empathy. Pain, 125, 5-9.
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
Loewenstein, G. (2005). Hot-cold empathy gaps and medical decision making. Health Psychology, 24, 49-56.
Lovett, B. J., & Sheffield, R. A. (2007). Affective empathy deficits in aggressive children and adolescents: A critical review. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 1-13.
McQuiggan, S. W., & Lester, J. C. (2007). Modeling and evaluating empathy in embodied companion agents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 348-360.
Metcalf, J. T. (1931). Empathy and the actor's emotion. Journal of Social Psychology, 2, 235-238.
Montag, C., Heinz, A., Kunz, D., & Gallinat, J. (2007). Self-reported empathic abilities in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 92, 85-89.
Moreno, A. J., Klute, M. M., & Robinson, J. L. (2008). Relational and individual resources as predictors of empathy in early childhood. Social Development, 17(3), 613-637.
Moriguchi, Y., Decety, J., Ohnishi, T., Maeda, M., Mori, T., Nemoto, K., Matsuda, H., & Komaki, G. (2007). Empathy and judging other's pain: An fMRI study of alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 2223-2234.
Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? Philosophical Review, 83, 435-450.
Nava, A. S. (2007). Empathy and group analysis: An integrative approach. Group Analysis, 40, 13-28.
Nettle, D. (2007). Empathizing and systemizing: what are they, and what do they contribute to our understanding of psychological sex differences? British Journal of Psychology, 98, 237-255.
Olsen, D. P. (2001). Empathetic maturity: Theory of moral point of view in clinical relations. Advances in Nursing Science, 24, 36-46.
Ponnet, K. S., Royers, H., Buysse, A., de Clercq, A., & van der Heyden, E. (2004). Advanced mind-reading in adults with Asperger syndrome. Autism, 8, 249-266.
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.
Preston, S. D., & deVaal, F. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioural and Brain Science, 25, 1-72.
Psychogiou, L., Daley, D., Thompson, M. J., & Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S. (2008). Parenting empathy: Associations with dimensions of parent and child psychopathology. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26(2), 221-232.
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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.
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Sharples, K. (2007). The art of empathy. Nursing Standard, 22, 61.
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Singer, T., Seymour, B., O’Doherty, J. P., Stephan, K. E., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others. Nature, 439, 466-469.
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