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Empathy and Personal Distress toward Outgroup Members, Attachment, and Traumatic National Narrative

A Comprehensive Model of Israeli Students

Sarit Alkalay, Anat Itzhak-Fishman, and Ohad Marcus

Relations between the Jewish and Arab citizens of the State of Israel are marked by both coexistence and by a conflict whose roots are deep and intractable ( Kupermintz et al. 2007 ). Previous research has found that empathy may impact the

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When Lamps Have Feelings

Empathy and Anthropomorphism Toward Inanimate Objects in Animated Films

Alyssa D. Edwards and Daniel M. Shafer

certain ways. This study explores factors that likely contribute to audience empathy toward animated, non-human characters in films. First, we review empathy and anthropomorphism literature and define both terms. Then, we describe an experiment that used

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Affect and Empathy

The Phenomenology of Perception and Spectatorship in Screen Media

Andrew J. Ball

encourage “empathic awareness” in viewers. In his article, Yifei Sun critiques the analog-contingent theories of movement put forward by Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. Sun modifies aspects of Deleuze's Cinema 1: The Movement-Image to offer a theory that

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A Moderately Pessimistic Perspective on “Cooperative Naturalism”

David Davies

is only extreme pessimists like McFee who share Fodor’s belief that the most we can get from neuroscience is an implementation model. Empathy: Its Value in Film Experience Empathy plays a central role in Smith’s account of the nature of film reception

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“Mind the Gap”

Between Movies and Mind, Affective Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Film

Jane Stadler

the representation and expression of emotion in film. My particular interest is in the account Smith advances of the nature of emotion and its role in relation to empathy and imagination in the film experience. As Smith contends, quantitative empirical

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Triangulation Revisited

Murray Smith

's The Empathic Screen (2019) from the perspective of triangulation , the interdisciplinary framework that I introduce and defend in my Film, Art, and the Third Culture ( Smith 2020 ) (hereafter FATC ). The framework of triangulation as set out in

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Selective Empathy

Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism

Naomi J. Andrews

community. Socialists’ inconsistent empathy with various subjugated groups in the French body politic are acutely apparent when we examine their positions on key metropolitan and imperial issues during the July Monarchy, especially colonial slavery, wage

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The iAnimal Film Series

Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality

Holly Cecil

and ecofeminism that challenge long-held assumptions of human exceptionalism, dominionism, and speciesism. For example, Lori Gruen's scholarship on “entangled empathy” (2016) calls for new ways of perceiving nonhuman animal experience, of seeing

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France in the Times of COVID-19

The Public Humanities as a Vaccine for Coexistence

Araceli Hernández-Laroche

France during Covid-19, enabling self-preservation, coping with isolation, understanding an upended world, creating a sense of connection and belonging, and cultivating empathy for others. For instance, in dealing with the existential angst of confinement

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Ta' Pinu

Ritualised Empathy on the Doorstep of Heaven

Philip Kao

This article explores the miracles and ex-votos (votive offerings) associated with the Ta' Pinu shrine on Gozo, Malta's northernmost island. Drawing from ethnographic data, analysis of various personal accounts, and observations of people's interactions with the bricolage of Ta' Pinu ex-votos, I seek to show that Gozitans perform a highly personal yet ritualised form of empathy in the context of miracle worship. The miracles associated with Ta' Pinu are thus seemingly 'contagious' and meaningful, because they elicit existential connections and reflections on the nature of supplication and Gozitan social relations.