Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2014/Compassion and empathy

Possible article
Hey, I really like your topic and am excited to see where you go with this! I noticed that you don't yet have subtopics on Compassion vs. Empathy and thought perhaps for one of your sections you could look into how empathy and compassion differ in terms of spirituality as compassion is viewed as more spiritual than empathy. I have found an article on compassion and spirituality which may be useful if you do look into something like this. I'm not sure if the link will work but here is the article reference: 'Brown, C. (2011). A spiritual approach to practising compassion. Journal Of Holistic Healthcare, 8(3), 54-56.' (I found the article on EBSCO through the library website. Good luck! :) U3081383 (discuss • contribs) 05:40, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Improve writing
Perhaps to improve the flow of your writing, you should consider breaking up the many long paragraphs you have written. It is recommended that you should have between three to five sentences per paragraph. However, you often go beyond that, such as in your overview. --MT200107 (discuss • contribs) 04:45, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Use of picture
I'm not sure what the picture gesture mean? How does this relate to compassion and empathy? Frank - u3077227 (discuss • contribs) 08:43, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

similarities between compassion and empathy?
Hi Becky,

This topic is really interesting and I feel that you have done so much work regarding your chapter. Here are some of my comments:

Since your topic is: similarities and differences between compassion and empathy, I feel that you could structure your chapter surrounding this. So far, I have not seen a part devoting to the similarities. Even if there are not many research on this, you can write this part with the knowledge you already have.

for example, what is compassion, the importance of it--> what is empathy, the importance of it--> what are the similarities: concerns for others, prosocial behaviour, they are both for human connections; are they related in neurobiologial ways? (I ask this because I can see you know quite a bit about the neuromechanisms of both); are they related from evolutionary point of view (we help each other to survive)?; Are they related in social applications (such as counselling, volunteering, reconciliation). With reconciliation alone, you have so much to talk about. For example, is empathy and compassion the emotional foundation for reconciliation? Mention indigenous issues, middle east issues. I came across this study: Giving peace a chance: Oxytocin increases empathy to pain in the context of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict.

Hope my comments help. Enjoy your writing! --Xlc (discuss • contribs) 00:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Becky, it is me again. I just realised that the writing guidelines from James says that 30% of our mark is for theory. Maybe indicate your theoretical stuff in the headings somewhere? --Xlc (discuss • contribs) 00:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Your table of contents looks really good. I change what I said earlier now. You have a special heading comparing compassion and empathy, in that framework, you have enough space to cover both the similarities and differences. The similarities and differences don't have to be 50/50, as long as you touch both, it should be fine. Now you have a good structure, just to work on part by part, follow your structure. --Xlc (discuss • contribs) 10:18, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

See also section
Hi, I am also doing an empathy related topic https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2014/Empathy_development

I've been working on me "See also" internal links section and I thought that my findings might be useful to you too.

You may want to add my page in and there is also someone doing altruism and empathy this year https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2014/Altruism_and_empathy

There are also two other empathy pages I have found from previous years

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Textbook/Emotion/Empathy

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2011/Empathy

ShaunaB - Talk

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:55, 8 December 2014 (UTC)