Light Sharee N
Positive Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Front Psychiatry. 2019 Apr 9;10:185. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00185. eCollection 2019.
Traditionally, empathy has been described as a process by which an individual "tries on" the negative emotion of others (i. e., empathic concern). A corpus of empirical work has been devoted to the study of this particular form of empathy. However, in this paper, the is proposed as a method for counteracting the lack of attention paid to "positive-valence empathy"-our ability to respond to the negative and positive emotion of others with appropriate positive affect. Both empathic concern and positive-valence empathy are argued to have distinguishable behavioral manifestations and at least partially distinguishable neurobiological underpinnings. The potential value of positive-valence empathy induction for therapeutic purposes is also discussed.
传统上，共情被描述为一个个体“体验”他人负面情绪的过程（即共情关注）。大量实证研究致力于这种特殊形式的共情研究。然而，在本文中，有人提出[具体内容缺失]作为一种方法，以应对人们对“正性共情”缺乏关注的问题——正性共情是指我们以适当的积极情感回应他人正负性情绪的能力。共情关注和正性共情都被认为具有不同的行为表现和至少部分不同的神经生物学基础。本文还讨论了诱导正性共情用于治疗目的的潜在价值。
