Tag: empathy

  • Imagination and legal reasoning, session 3

    I’m chairing this (predominantly pedagogy) session so comments will be short.  Useful paper by Paul Harris on developmental psychology.  Causal thinking is often influenced by counterfactual thinking — explored by psychologists in the late eighties eg Wells & Gavinski 1989, particularly with regard to children’s development.  He cited Harris et al 1996 (cited here).  He…

  • Imagination & legal reasoning, session 2

    Firt up, Suzanne Keen.  She’s a narratologist, written on empathy and the novel, amongst much else.  She contrasted immersion with perspective-taking and role-taking, and defined various forms of empathy.  Machiavellian empathy — evolved behaviour, eg psychopaths demonstrate it a lot; self-empathy, where you deal with threats by imagining what they will do to you; fantasy…

  • Parallel session 4b: Emotion, empathy and relationships

    I’m chairing so comments will be shorter.  First up, Jenny Richards, Flinders U., on ‘ Developing a sociolegal theory of criminal lawyering: increasing wellbeing through holistic engagement with clients’.  She focused on both her work as a lecturer at Flinders, and as a lawyer at the Criminal Bar.  Managing client emotions were a key need…