Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds

9. Empathy and interpersonal sensitivity^*

^* The lead author is Jean Decety, Ph.D., the Irving B. Harris Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Codirector of the Brain Research Imaging Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is the editor of the journal Social Neuroscience. His interests include the investigation of the neurobiological mechanisms underpinning interpersonal sensitivity, particularly empathy and sympathy. His recent work focuses on developmental neuroscience with both typically developing children and adolescents, and children with deficits in empathic responding, such as antisocial behavior ...