Brain Areas
Major processing center for emotions
Amygdala
The ability to understand and feel others emotions
Empathy
Lola starts crying because she lost her dead grandma's necklace so I start crying
Ability to differentiate between your own mental state and others
Self-other distinction
Area active during action monitoring and during cognitive ToM
mPFC: dmPFC Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex
Cognitive understanding of others behaviors and intentions
Theory of Mind
Mr. Smith is wearing a Barcelona jersey and is yelling at the TV
What kind of empathy would you use?
Cognitive Empathy and cognitive ToM
Inferring his beliefs
Psychological condition involving challenges with social behavior, deficits in empathy and ToM
Autism Spectrum Disorder
mPFC: vmPFC Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
Cognitive understanding of another's perspective
Cognitive Empathy
David is mad because Joey got to leave school early
You know that Joey's dad is in the hospital
What kind of empathy should David use?
Cognitive empathy
Put himself in Joey's position and take on his perspective
A consequential bias that involves putting your mental state onto others
Egocentricity Bias
Not a brain area but neural mechanisms that fire both when you complete an action and when observing an action
Mirror Neurons
Appropriating another's feelings
Emotional Empathy
You just failed your final exam and now you are told that you must re-take the class over the summer
How do you feel?
Do you feel resentful or sad?
Affective Theory of Mind: Intrapersonal
Perspective that states that we create theories to infer about other people's situations and experiences
Theory Theory Perspective
In charge of mental inferences about others such as goals or beliefs
Temporoparietal Junction(TPJ)
The two constructs of cognitive empathy and their sub-constructs
Cognitive Theory of Mind: Interpersonal
Affective Theory of Mind: Intrapersonal
Your eating ice cream out of a yogurt cup
Max comes and picks up your cup
What does Max think you are eating?
Interpersonal Cognitive ToM
Theory about empathy stating that we use our imagination to simulate another's mental state also incorporates mirror neurons
Simulation perspective