Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy

IF 3 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Emotion Review Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI:10.1177/17540739221082215

Brett A. Murphy, S. Lilienfeld, Sara B. Algoe

引用次数: 6

Abstract

A growing cadre of influential scholars has converged on a circumscribed definition of empathy as restricted only to feeling the same emotion that one perceives another is feeling. We argue that this restrictive isomorphic matching (RIM) definition is deeply problematic because (1) it deviates dramatically from traditional conceptualizations of empathy and unmoors the construct from generations of scientific research and clinical practice; (2) insistence on an isomorphic form undercuts much of the functional value of empathy from multiple perspectives of analysis; and (3) combining the opposing concepts of isomorphic matching and self-other awareness implicitly requires motivational content, causing the RIM definition to implicitly require the kind of non-matching emotional content that it explicitly seeks to exclude.

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为什么我们应该拒绝同理心的限制性同构匹配定义

越来越多有影响力的学者对移情的定义进行了界定，认为移情仅限于感受一个人对另一个人的感受。我们认为，这种限制性同构匹配(RIM)定义存在严重问题，因为:(1)它严重偏离了传统的共情概念，并脱离了几代科学研究和临床实践的构建;(2)从多个分析角度看，对同构形式的坚持削弱了共情的功能价值;(3)将同构匹配和自我-他者意识这两个对立的概念结合起来，隐性地要求动机内容，从而导致RIM定义隐性地要求其明确寻求排除的非匹配情感内容。

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Emotion Review PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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6.60

自引率

3.70%

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期刊介绍： Emotion Review is a fully peer reviewed scholarly journal. It adheres to a blinded peer review process in which the reviewer"s name is routinely withheld from the author unless the reviewer requests a preference for their identity to be revealed. All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Emotion Review will focus on ideas about emotion, with "emotion" broadly defined. The Review will publish articles presenting new theories, offering conceptual analyses, reviewing the literature, and debating and critiquing conceptual issues.