{"title":"Christian Keysers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"empathic-brain-book-christian-keysers-9789081829205","title":"The Empathic Brain","description":"The Content Your heart beats faster as you watch a tarantula crawl on James Bond's chest in the movie Dr No, your hands sweat and your skin tingles under the spider's legs. You feel scared, tense, and finally relieved when Bond manages to escape the danger. We are essentially empathic. But what is empathy? How does your brain enable you to feel so much of what 007 is feeling? How do you connect with people in real life, people you love or even strangers? In this book, you will visit leading labs to find your own answers. The journey starts where 'mirror neurons' were discovered. The door of a lab in Parma, Italy, opens to reveal that your motor system not only controls your own body - it becomes automatically activated each time you see others move. A little later, you lie down on a bed and slowly move into the bore of a brain scanner in Marseille, becoming a subject in an experiment that will show how your own sensations and emotions are automatically triggered while you witness those of others. These experiments unravel the mirror in our brain that lets our own actions, sensations and emotions resonate with those of Bond and the people around us. By sharing their inner lives, we connect with them. We are hard-wired for empathy. By looking at autistic individuals and psychopathic criminals, by comparing men and women, by exploring empathy for robots and enemies, this book explores the multifaceted nature of empathy and evidences both its power and limits. Science begins to reveal the wisdom of why so many of the world's religions command do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Praise If anyone can write about the brain mechanisms of empathy, Keysers is the man. A page turning read. A grand perspective on many aspects of the empathic brain. He explains why we should re-think morality, education and ethics in light of the way we have evolved to resonate with each other. A book ahead of the game. A great authoritative read. (Prof. Bruce Hood, 2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer, Bristol University for The Psychologist) Christian Keysers has the combined skills of a hard-core animal neuroscientists, the talents of a human brain imager, and the sophistication of a theoretician. This book takes us on a critical journey of the discovery of mirror neurons of which he was a part, our understanding of empathy, imitation, and language. Though many have written about mirror neurons, this book outshines them all. If you want an honest account of mirror neurons, how they work, and what we can learn from them, read Keysers' book (Prof. Mark Hauser, Harvard University, bestselling author of 'Moral Minds'). A masterful description of how mirror neurons turn us into social beings (Prof. Dick Swaab, bestselling author of 'We are our brain'). About the Author Dr Christian Keysers' work has been seminal for the scientific study of empathy. Born in 1973, his work has led to publications in the most prominent scientific journals and has made him one of the youngest people to attain the rank of Full Professor. His capacity to explain his science to the wider audience earned him the Marie Curie Excellence Award. He now leads a lab together with his wife at the prestigious Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. He is a Full Professor at the UMCG and a frequent Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology. Outside of the laboratory, his wife Valeria and his daughter Julia are teaching him why empathy is such a gift.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50132800209169,"sku":"GOR007338257","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50794643226897,"sku":"CIN9081829203VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51064538005777,"sku":"NIN9789081829205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694442053905,"sku":"CIN9081829203G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52650352214289,"sku":"NLS9789081829205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53410043724049,"sku":"GOR010265906","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9081829203.jpg?v=1750732912"},{"product_id":"empathic-brain-book-christian-keysers-9781463769062","title":"The Empathic Brain","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51027824312593,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51027826934033,"sku":"NIN9781463769062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1463769067.jpg?v=1750715372"},{"product_id":"het-empathische-brein-book-christian-keysers-9789081829212","title":"Het Empathische Brein","description":"\u003cp\u003eAls je in Dr. No een vogelspin over James Bonds borst ziet kruipen, gaat je hart sneller kloppen. Je handen gaan zweten en je huid tintelt onder de poten van de spin. Eerst ben je bang, daarna opgelucht als Bond erin slaagt te ontsnappen aan het gevaar. Waarom voelen we mee met Bond terwijl we zelf rustig thuis op de bank zitten? We noemen dit empathie. Maar wat is empathie precies? En hoe zorgt ons brein ervoor dat jij hetzelfde ervaart als James Bond? Ook in het dagelijks leven is empathie nooit ver weg. Hoe komt het dat je meevoelt met je geliefde en zelfs met vreemden? De ontdekking van spiegelneuronen heeft het onderzoek naar empathie op zijn grondvesten doen schudden. Spiegelneuronen blijken continu het gevoel en de emoties van anderen bij onszelf te genereren. Christian Keysers laat ons in Het empathische brein aan de hand van levendige en persoonlijke beschrijvingen van experimenten zien waarom we niet alleen individuen zijn, maar vooral ook sociale wezens. Door te kijken naar onder meer mensen met autisme en psychopathie en naar robots, verkent dit boek de veelzijdigheid van empathie, met al haar positieve en negatieve kanten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Spiegelneuronen, een teken van onze primaten achtergrond, verbinden ons met de situatie van anderen. Christian Keysers beschrijft op beeldende wijze hoe ze bijdragen aan empathie in ons brein, en bezorgt opwindende nieuwe informatie over de aardige kant van onze soort.' FRANS DE WAAL, BIOLOOG EN AUTEUR VAN EEN TIJD VOOR EMPATHIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeevoelen met anderen is een basiseigenschap die mensen tot sociale wezens maakt. De auteur, neurowetenschapper, ontrafelt hier de onderliggende principes van empathie. Aan de hand van levendige beschrijvingen van wetenschappelijke experimenten laat hij zien hoe spiegelneuronen de basis vormen van sociaal gedrag. Deze neuronen, die in de jaren '90 bij toeval werden ontdekt, werken niet alleen wanneer mensen zelf iets doen, maar ook wanneer ze anderen datzelfde zien doen. Deze ontdekking vormde een ware ommekeer in het sociaal cognitief en neurowetenschappelijk onderzoek, omdat het mogelijk werd het brein te zien als ge ntegreerd systeem dat de handelingen van anderen verwerkt met dezelfde gebieden die worden geactiveerd als we onze eigen bewegingen programmeren. Inmiddels vormen spiegelneuronen een fundamenteel principe van de hersenarchitectuur dat onder meer een rol speelt bij leren, emoties en psychopathologie, zoals autisme. De auteur verstaat de kunst om wetenschappelijke kennis op een spannende en plezierig leesbare manier toegankelijk te maken voor een breder lezerspubliek. Drs. N.P. 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