This week, I have been focusing on psychology theories based on empathy and whether they could help support my idea of using visual effects to mirror a characters emotion can help the audience to empathise with the character more. The research that I have found is:
"Cognitive Empathy
By definition: “Simply knowing how the other person feels and what they might be thinking. Sometimes called perspective-taking” - Daniel Goleman, renowned psychologist and author of the 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.
What it’s concerned with: Thought, understanding, intellect.
Benefits: Helps in negotiations, motivating other people, understanding diverse viewpoints.
Pitfalls: Can be disconnected from or ignore deep emotions; doesn’t put you in another’s shoes in a felt sense.
Cognitive Empathy is about thought as much as emotion.
It is defined by knowing, understanding, or comprehending on an intellectual level. As most of us know, to understand sadness is not the same thing as feeling sad.
I suspect that if I came home upset about losing a job, my own partner would respond this way. In the same way that a doctor can look at a sick patient and try to understand the parts of the illness rather than dive into the patient’s emotions—cognitive empathy responds to a problem with brainpower. My fiance, an engineer and pilot, turns his brain into high gear in situations like this. You could say it’s the way some people are wired, to understand emotions in terms of why they make sense for humans in certain situations.
This type of empathy can be a huge asset in circumstances where you need to “get inside another person’s head” or interact with tact and understanding. We talk about this is our blog “Emotional Intelligence and Empathy in Leadership.” On the other hand, cognitive empathy is in some ways like mixing apples and oranges. To truly understand another person’s feelings, don’t you in some sense have to be able to feel them yourself? Those who react with Cognitive Empathy risk seeming cold or detached."
"Emotional Empathy
By definition: “when you feel physically along with the other person, as though their emotions were contagious.” - Daniel Goldman
What it’s concerned with: feelings, physical sensation, mirror neurons in the brain.
Benefits: Helps in close interpersonal relationships and careers like coaching, marketing, management and HR.
Pitfalls: Can be overwhelming, or inappropriate in certain circumstances.
Emotional Empathy, just like is sounds, involves directly feeling the emotions that another person is feeling. You’ve probably heard of the term “empath,” meaning a person with the ability to fully take on the emotional and mental state of another. The quote that comes to mind is: “I have a lot of feelings.”
This type of response might seem disconnected from the brain and thinking, but as Goldman points out, emotional empathy is actually deeply rooted in a human’s mirror neurons. All animals have neurons that fire in a certain way when they see another animal acting, making them relate to that action in their own body and brain. Emotional empathy does exactly that with the feelings someone experiences in reaction to a situation.
When your partner—or anyone you deeply love—comes to you in tears, it’s a natural response to feel that pull on your heartstrings. Like crying at a wedding or cringing when someone stubs their toe, it’s a deep-seated, gut reaction that often feels like a visceral human response. Connecting with another human in this way is intimate and can form a strong bond.
Like Cognitive Empathy, Emotional Empathy has its flip-side. “One downside of emotional empathy occurs when people lack the ability to manage their own distressing emotions,” writes Goldman. “[This] can be seen in the psychological exhaustion that leads to burnout.” Feeling too much can make even small interactions overwhelming."
"Compassionate Empathy
By definition: “With this kind of empathy we not only understand a person’s predicament and feel with them, but are spontaneously moved to help, if needed.” - Daniel Goldman
What it’s concerned with: Intellect, emotion, and action.
Benefits: Considers the whole person.
Pitfalls: Few—this is the type of empathy that we’re usually striving for!
The majority of the time, Compassionate Empathy is the ideal. Cognitive Empathy may be fitting for political or monetary negotiations or surgeon’s offices; Emotional Empathy may be the first response in children and for our loved ones; Compassionate Empathy strikes a powerful balance of the two.
Feelings of the heart and thoughts of the brain are not opposites. In fact, they’re intricately connected. Compassionate Empathy honors that natural connection by considering both the felt senses and intellectual situation of another person.
When your loved one comes to you in tears, you want to understand why she is upset and you also want to provide comfort by sharing in her emotional experience and hopefully helping her heal. It’s a lot to handle!
Most of us will skew to one side or the other: more thinking or more feeling; more fixing or more wallowing.
Compassionate Empathy is taking the middle ground and using your emotional intelligence to correctly respond to the situation. Does your partner just need to be held? Does the situation call for quick action? Without either becoming overwhelmed by sadness or trying to fix things with logistics, compassion brings a mindful touch to tough situations.
When I think of empathy I often think of a teeter-totter. Go too far into another person’s psyche and do you risk losing yourself? Avoid diving into their world and are you missing out on an integral part of the human experience? Is too much feeling inappropriate? Too little, hurtful?
The truth is, not all situations are the same just like not all types of empathy are the same."
https://blog.heartmanity.com/the-three-kinds-of-empathy-emotional-cognitive-compassionate
https://www.academia.edu/2156675/The_Paradox_of_Fiction_and_the_Ethics_of_Empathy_Reconceiving_Dickenss_Realism
https://www.quora.com/What-is-somatic-empathy-How-does-it-work
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hot-thought/201705/empathy-in-literature-and-film
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269827577_Empathy_Film_and_the_Brain
https://www.academia.edu/23063629/Stadler_J._Empathy_and_Film._Routledge_Handbook_of_Philosophy_of_Empathy._Ed._Heidi_L._Maibom._New_York_Routledge_forthcoming_2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_theory_of_empathy
The papers and information listed will be very useful for quote for my essay.
"Cognitive Empathy
By definition: “Simply knowing how the other person feels and what they might be thinking. Sometimes called perspective-taking” - Daniel Goleman, renowned psychologist and author of the 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.
What it’s concerned with: Thought, understanding, intellect.
Benefits: Helps in negotiations, motivating other people, understanding diverse viewpoints.
Pitfalls: Can be disconnected from or ignore deep emotions; doesn’t put you in another’s shoes in a felt sense.
Cognitive Empathy is about thought as much as emotion.
It is defined by knowing, understanding, or comprehending on an intellectual level. As most of us know, to understand sadness is not the same thing as feeling sad.
I suspect that if I came home upset about losing a job, my own partner would respond this way. In the same way that a doctor can look at a sick patient and try to understand the parts of the illness rather than dive into the patient’s emotions—cognitive empathy responds to a problem with brainpower. My fiance, an engineer and pilot, turns his brain into high gear in situations like this. You could say it’s the way some people are wired, to understand emotions in terms of why they make sense for humans in certain situations.
This type of empathy can be a huge asset in circumstances where you need to “get inside another person’s head” or interact with tact and understanding. We talk about this is our blog “Emotional Intelligence and Empathy in Leadership.” On the other hand, cognitive empathy is in some ways like mixing apples and oranges. To truly understand another person’s feelings, don’t you in some sense have to be able to feel them yourself? Those who react with Cognitive Empathy risk seeming cold or detached."
"Emotional Empathy
By definition: “when you feel physically along with the other person, as though their emotions were contagious.” - Daniel Goldman
What it’s concerned with: feelings, physical sensation, mirror neurons in the brain.
Benefits: Helps in close interpersonal relationships and careers like coaching, marketing, management and HR.
Pitfalls: Can be overwhelming, or inappropriate in certain circumstances.
Emotional Empathy, just like is sounds, involves directly feeling the emotions that another person is feeling. You’ve probably heard of the term “empath,” meaning a person with the ability to fully take on the emotional and mental state of another. The quote that comes to mind is: “I have a lot of feelings.”
This type of response might seem disconnected from the brain and thinking, but as Goldman points out, emotional empathy is actually deeply rooted in a human’s mirror neurons. All animals have neurons that fire in a certain way when they see another animal acting, making them relate to that action in their own body and brain. Emotional empathy does exactly that with the feelings someone experiences in reaction to a situation.
When your partner—or anyone you deeply love—comes to you in tears, it’s a natural response to feel that pull on your heartstrings. Like crying at a wedding or cringing when someone stubs their toe, it’s a deep-seated, gut reaction that often feels like a visceral human response. Connecting with another human in this way is intimate and can form a strong bond.
Like Cognitive Empathy, Emotional Empathy has its flip-side. “One downside of emotional empathy occurs when people lack the ability to manage their own distressing emotions,” writes Goldman. “[This] can be seen in the psychological exhaustion that leads to burnout.” Feeling too much can make even small interactions overwhelming."
"Compassionate Empathy
By definition: “With this kind of empathy we not only understand a person’s predicament and feel with them, but are spontaneously moved to help, if needed.” - Daniel Goldman
What it’s concerned with: Intellect, emotion, and action.
Benefits: Considers the whole person.
Pitfalls: Few—this is the type of empathy that we’re usually striving for!
The majority of the time, Compassionate Empathy is the ideal. Cognitive Empathy may be fitting for political or monetary negotiations or surgeon’s offices; Emotional Empathy may be the first response in children and for our loved ones; Compassionate Empathy strikes a powerful balance of the two.
Feelings of the heart and thoughts of the brain are not opposites. In fact, they’re intricately connected. Compassionate Empathy honors that natural connection by considering both the felt senses and intellectual situation of another person.
When your loved one comes to you in tears, you want to understand why she is upset and you also want to provide comfort by sharing in her emotional experience and hopefully helping her heal. It’s a lot to handle!
Most of us will skew to one side or the other: more thinking or more feeling; more fixing or more wallowing.
Compassionate Empathy is taking the middle ground and using your emotional intelligence to correctly respond to the situation. Does your partner just need to be held? Does the situation call for quick action? Without either becoming overwhelmed by sadness or trying to fix things with logistics, compassion brings a mindful touch to tough situations.
When I think of empathy I often think of a teeter-totter. Go too far into another person’s psyche and do you risk losing yourself? Avoid diving into their world and are you missing out on an integral part of the human experience? Is too much feeling inappropriate? Too little, hurtful?
The truth is, not all situations are the same just like not all types of empathy are the same."
https://blog.heartmanity.com/the-three-kinds-of-empathy-emotional-cognitive-compassionate
https://www.academia.edu/2156675/The_Paradox_of_Fiction_and_the_Ethics_of_Empathy_Reconceiving_Dickenss_Realism
https://www.quora.com/What-is-somatic-empathy-How-does-it-work
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/hot-thought/201705/empathy-in-literature-and-film
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269827577_Empathy_Film_and_the_Brain
https://www.academia.edu/23063629/Stadler_J._Empathy_and_Film._Routledge_Handbook_of_Philosophy_of_Empathy._Ed._Heidi_L._Maibom._New_York_Routledge_forthcoming_2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_theory_of_empathy
The papers and information listed will be very useful for quote for my essay.
Practical-
For my practical this week I have been filming in the park for my work. However, when I had finished the filming and was about to edit, I found that the quality of the camera wasn't very good and wouldn't work for the animations that I wanted to put on it. Therefore, I will be having to reshoot the film's. The filming that I am wanting to capture is of someone I know doing "everyday things" and displaying different emotions while doing it to make it look as natural as possible. I am wanting to use a tripod to make sure the audience doesn't get directed with movement when watching this clips. This is because I am wanting to create visual effects that reflect a characters emotional state and I would like the audience to decide on whether by doing this it enables them to understand clearer what they are feeling and therefore feel more empathetic towards the character.
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