Empathy, Self-Reflection, and Curriculum Choice

“Reflection and Choice”: A One-Time Experience?

Reflection, Self-Awareness and Self-Healing

There is a growing interest in the area of self-healing systems. Self-healing does however impose considerable demands on system infrastructures—especially in terms of openness and support for reconfigurability. This paper proposes that the selfawareness inherent in reflective technologies lends itself well to the construction of self-healing systems. In particular, the paper examines the suppo...

Egoism, Empathy, and Self-Other Merging

Some philosophers and psychologists have evaluated psychological egoism against recent experimental work in social psychology. Dan Batson (1991; forthcoming), in particular, argues that empathy tends to induce genuinely altruistic motives in humans. However, some argue that there are egoistic explanations of the data which remain unscathed. I focus here on some recent criticisms based on the id...

Self-Referential Cognition and Empathy in Autism

BACKGROUND Individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) have profound impairments in the interpersonal social domain, but it is unclear if individuals with ASC also have impairments in the intrapersonal self-referential domain. We aimed to evaluate across several well validated measures in both domains, whether both self-referential cognition and empathy are impaired in ASC and whether the...

Cyberbullying, self-esteem, empathy and loneliness

Cyberbullying is a unique phenomenon, distinguished from traditional bullying by the speed at which information is distributed, permanence of material and availability of victims. There is however a paucity of research in this area, and few studies have examined the factors contributing to cyberbullying behaviour. The present study investigated the influence of self-esteem, empathy and loneline...