Category: Compassion

From the ‘iPhone effect’ to the ‘virtual hug’: Is technology restricting or increasing our empathy?

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Faced with a vast array of choice when it comes to interacting with those around us, our favoured communication medium will often be the simplest, quickest and most immediately available. But as technology continually develops, the impact of modern communication tools on the quality and depth of interpersonal exchange is […]

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CMC, Compassion, Digital Empathy, empathy, iphone effect, Psychology

Defining empathy

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Empathy is a complex psychological phenomenon; today there are as many researchers acknowledging discrepancies in the use of the term, as there are inconsistent definitions. Within both psychological science and lacklustre media articles, the word “empathy” has been generalised to allude to a whole host of related, but fundamentally separable, […]

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Compassion, Digital Empathy, Emotion, Emotion regulation, empathy, Psychology

Defining empathy

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Empathy is a complex psychological phenomenon; today there are as many researchers acknowledging discrepancies in the use of the term, as there are inconsistent definitions. Within both psychological science and lacklustre media articles, the word “empathy” has been generalised to allude to a whole host of related, but fundamentally separable, […]

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Compassion, Digital Empathy, Emotion, Emotion regulation, empathy, Psychology