Roots and collapse of empathy : human nature at its best and at its worst / Stein Bråten,

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Introduction and overview. -- Primera parte: Infant roots of empathy and mutual infant-adult attunement. -- Empathic participation: When infants feed others and participate in their movements. -- Infant and adult in interpersonal communion and upon perturbation. -- Empathic distress, moral development and dilemma-processing. -- Segunda parte: Empathy, dialogue, and their blockage. -- Empathy and its neurosocial support: Mirror neurons. -- Children hurting and comforting, and being victims of abuse and net-bullying. -- When nature prevents empathy, while opening for special talents: Autism. -- When dialogue breaks down: Submitting to group pressure and a monolithic perspective. -- Tercera parte: From genocide and terrorism to rescue and altruism. -- How can ordinary persons become agents of torture and extermination?. -- The sole terrorist’s attacks on Norway, July 22, 2011. -- From civilian rescuers to this question: Is armed violence declining and non-violent.