... Some White Folks takes a different tack, exploring the origins and consequences of Whites' sympathy for the suffering of African American people. In his review, Jesse H. Rhodes praises the book's rigorous methods and interesting findings and argues that Some White Folks makes an important...

...’ emotional functioning over time, specifically the degree of sympathy they experience toward others, and which factors enhance or buffer this relationship. Drawing on the theoretical model of strengths and vulnerabilities integration, we predict that occupation-level EJDs reduce employees’ sympathy over a 9...

... a bond of terrestrial-sidereal sympathy through music — tuning in to the right frequency, so to speak — the magus-musician could channel celestial gifts into himself, in the same manner that a lyre received sympathetic vibrations. Ficino’s conception of resonance was deeply rooted in a Neo-Platonic...

..., the forensic expert witnesses, who were influential in the field, considered the virtue of sympathy and the practices of care that women doctors promoted to be incompatible with the judicial virtue of impartiality. To avoid any suggestion of partiality, which would damage their authority in the adversarial...

..., sympathy toward people’s unmet basic needs, we hypothesize that when allocating donation amounts between urgent and non-urgent causes: Given that lower-class consumers are embedded in contexts of generalized scarcity, we reasoned that this pervasive and enduring experience (witnessed or lived) would make...

... by which the ‘man without’ influences the ‘man within’, nothing of that kind is to be found in Sen’s conception of public reasoning. And it is here that Smith’s famous concept of ‘sympathy’ can supplement Sen’s theory, in a way that furnishes an answer to Shapiro’s (2011) criticism regarding...

... would have destroyed had we not come to the rescue; and so, because it is inconvenient to be exposed and thwarted, he snarls about the end of all true womanliness, and cants on the subject of the Sphere ³³ The form of sympathy that Grand describes is far from the narrow self-interest...

... and foundational concept for his ideal of a civilized and free society. Finally, this interpretation of the importance of Smith’s persuasion allows us to overcome the famous Das Adam Smith Problem. Adam Smith Persuasion Sympathy Language and speech were of high importance to Adam Smith. He not only...

...’ estimations of pediatric pain experiences. Theory suggests differential influences of sympathy versus personal distress on pain estimations; yet empirical evidence on the impact of caregivers’ feelings of sympathy versus distress upon estimations of pediatric pain experiences is lacking. The current study...

.... Though they will never be unisons, they may be concords.’ ¹² Further, Smith’s concord depends upon sympathy that arises from the imaginary ‘change of situations’. In this context, individuals come to know themselves and the world around them by coordinating a balance between the two through...

... as a scientifically verifiable process which explains why beauty matters to us. She also seeks to use it to mediate a new position capable of acknowledging the power of aestheticism's critique of Victorian moralism, while re-establishing moral action as central to aesthetic experience. empathy sympathy Vernon Lee...

... reserved 2005 Abstract Authority for Smith arises ironically from the desire to attain a high station in life. Given that most people fail, they ‘free ride’: they identify their ego with high-ranking agents, through ‘vicarious sympathy’. Vicarious sympathy gives rise to status and, if combined...

... and bioethics in the English language and did so on the basis of Hume’s principle of sympathy. This paper provides a brief account of Gregory’s inven- tion and the role that Humean sympathy plays in that invention, with reference to key texts in Gregory’s work. The paper also considers two interesting...