Empathy and Artificial Intelligence by Anat Perry
As artificial intelligence chatbots offer increasingly sophisticated emotional support, society faces a profound question: can a machine truly empathize? Empathy and Artificial Intelligence provides the first comprehensive roadmap for this pivotal moment. Moving beyond simple binaries of 'hype' or 'doom,' this interdisciplinary volume unites leading psychologists, philosophers, and engineers to explore the tangled web of synthetic care. Key chapters investigate the 'AI Advantage' – where machines often outperform humans in perceived empathy – alongside the 'AI Penalty,' where discovering the artifice corrodes trust. The text navigates the distinct landscapes of text-based LLMs and embodied robots, addressing urgent ethical dilemmas and exploring whether reliance on AI risks the atrophy of our moral capacities or enables synthetic agents to scaffold stronger human relationships. Essential for researchers, students, and curious observers, this book investigates whether outsourcing our emotional labor saves us time, or costs us our humanity.-
The Emotions
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Structures of Social Action
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The Psychology of Facial Expression
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Feeling and Thinking
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Feelings and Emotions
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Causes and Consequences of Feelings
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Speaking from the Heart
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Emotional Contagion
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The Cultural Shaping of Emotion
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For, Against, Together
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Heart to Heart
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The Social Life of Emotions
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Beyond Virtue
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Interpersonal Expectations
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Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Close Relationships
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The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion
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Identity and Emotion
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The Aesthetics of Emotion
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Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality
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Emotion and Narrative
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The Hidden Genius of Emotion
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Emotional Lives
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The Individual, Communication, and Society
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Group Dynamics and Emotional Expression
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Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny
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The Expression of Emotion
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The Mind and its Stories
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Gestures and Speech
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The Self and its Emotions
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Emotions across Languages and Cultures
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Collective Guilt
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Emotions and Multilingualism
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The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression
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Body Movement and Speech in Medical Interaction
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Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair
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Emotion
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What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
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Affect and Social Behavior
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Gender and Emotion
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Exploring Affect
Anat Perry is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a 2025–2026 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. She studies various facets of empathy and related social processes, and lately – what we can learn from human–AI interactions about what we value in human empathy and relations. Her work appears in leading journals, including Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Machine Intelligence. C. Daryl Cameron is an Associate Professor in Psychology, a 2023–2026 Sherwin Early Career Professor, and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. He directs the Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab, and studies why and how people choose to empathize during interactions with humans, animals, and AI. He also directs the interdisciplinary Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. In 2022, he received the Early Career in Affective Science Award from the Society for Affective Science.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009639064 |
| Title | Empathy and Artificial Intelligence |
| Author | Anat Perry |
| Series | Studies In Emotion And Social Interaction |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
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