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This review aims to synthesize diverse perspectives on empathy, exploring its historical context and societal implications.

Reconstructing empathy – phenomenological and social neuroscientific perspectives

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This review aims to synthesize diverse perspectives on empathy, exploring its historical context and societal implications.
Conceptual and integrative review was conducted.
Utilized philosophical inquiry, psychological theory, and social neuroscience studies.
Sourced key models and empirical evidence to analyze empathy's evolution.
Identified empathy as a multidimensional construct with affective, cognitive, and self-regulatory components.
Highlighted tensions between empathy and morality, and emotional sharing versus self–other distinction.
Argued that phenomenological studies provide a closer understanding of real-life empathy than neuroscientific approaches.

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Conceptual review reveals empathy's multidimensionality and societal relevance, suggesting improved prosocial behaviour and inclusion.

Vaid et al. (2026) studied this question.

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