The Evolution of Empathy Ft. Dr. Susan Lanzoni w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy
Watch this episode to learn about the evolution of empathy - spanning visual art to cutting-edge neuroscience.
Dr. Susan Lanzoni is a writer and historian of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. She is also the author of Empathy: A History, one of the most comprehensive books about the topic I have ever read. In this episode, she unpacks one of the primary questions of empathy: How can the self understand the other?
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00:37 Introduction
00:54 About Susan Lanzoni, PhD
02:35 How the meaning of empathy has evolved
06:42 The origin story of empathy involves art
09:51 Aesthetic empathy, emotional empathy, and cognitive empathy
13:42 The neuroscience of empathy
17:04 How empathy “draws a border but also builds a bridge”
22:22 The continuum from pity to empathy and the tension of lived experiences
26:21 Doctors Kenneth & Mamie Clark and "The Doll Test"
34:48 The benefits of purposeful empathy and the importance of empathy training
37:12 Susan’s next empathy journey: Exploring all the ways empathy is expressed and felt
42:21 Susan Lanzoni’s Purposeful Empathy Story
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Show Notes
Empathy: A History
A Heart-shaped Rock https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/a-he...
“The Doll Test" https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-boa...
Video edited by David Tsvariani