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EMOTION REVIEW
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 24-33Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911421378
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emotional contagion; empathy; perception-action; perspective taking; self-other overlap
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A surfeit of research confirms that people activate personal, affective, and conceptual representations when perceiving the states of others. However, researchers continue to debate the role of self-other overlap in empathy due to a failure to dissociate neural overlap, subjective resonance, and personal distress. A perception-action view posits that neural-level overlap is necessary during early processing for all social understanding, but need not be conscious or aversive. This neural overlap can subsequently produce a variety of states depending on the context and degree of common experience and emotionality. We outline a framework for understanding the interrelationship between neural and subjective overlap, and among empathic states, through a dynamic-systems view of how information is processed in the brain and body.
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