![]() While the proper neural regions lit up, Ricard felt drained after just a few minutes. During that time, brain regions associated with empathy were not activated.ĭuring the next meditation he focused on empathy. Ricard was asked to focus first on compassion while having his brain scanned by an fMRI machine. ![]() Bloom cites a study conducted by neuroscientist Tania Singer and Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, himself a former scientist before leaving that world in the seventies to devote his life to meditation. Briefly, the former is literally feeling what another is experiencing, while the latter implies sympathizing with the other-understanding what’s going on without necessarily going through the same emotional whirlwind. He argues exactly this point in the latest issue of Boston Review.Īt the heart of his article lies an important distinction between emotional versus cognitive empathy. ![]() Yale University professor of psychology and cognitive science Paul Bloom thinks a lot gray resides in such a black-and-white definition, and that there is more danger than good adopting such a simplistic view of empathy. ![]()
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