BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5116-a7fee7607818710d96ebf1dcd6f8a07b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T212916Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T140000 SUMMARY:Expanding Empathy Lecture Series: Lasana Harris DESCRIPTION:\nLecture title: "\;Flexible Social Cognition as a Proac tive Empathy Regulation Strategy"\;\n\nAbstract: \;Lay opinions of empathy surround its benefits\, motivating pro-social behavior\, prom oting human connection\, and relieving human suffering. However\, empath y appears a curse of contradictions: useful for the target\, but harmful to the perceiver given the experience of empathy is unpleasant. Empathy has been linked to burnout in health care professionals\, despite the f act that it is rewarded during recruitment and training. Urban legends o ften tell of a hidden curriculum in medical training\, where students ar e taught how to regulate empathic responses. Here\, I discuss the regula tion of empathy in medical professionals via flexible social cognition. I present behavioral evidence linking empathy\, mentalizing processes an d burnout in health care professions\, as well as causal evidence that t he social context can determine whether empathy impacts behavior. I use this evidence to argue that flexible social cognition theory predicts wh en empathy relieves\, and renders human suffering. \;\n\nPlease regi ster here: \;bit.lyEE21Harris\n\nFor more details: https://events.la .psu.edu/event/ee-lasanaharris_0323/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lecture titl e: "Flexible Social Cognition as a Proactive Empathy Regulat ion Strategy"

Abstract: Lay opinions of em pathy surround its benefits, motivating pro-social behavior, promoting h uman connection, and relieving human suffering. However, empathy appears a curse of contradictions: useful for the target, but harmful to the pe rceiver given the experience of empathy is unpleasant. Empathy has been linked to burnout in health care professionals, despite the fact that it is rewarded during recruitment and training. Urban legends often tell o f a hidden curriculum in medical training, where students are taught how to regulate empathic responses. Here, I discuss the regulation of empat hy in medical professionals via flexible social cognition. I present beh avioral evidence linking empathy, mentalizing processes and burnout in h ealth care professions, as well as causal evidence that the social conte xt can determine whether empathy impacts behavior. I use this evidence t o argue that flexible social cognition theory predicts when empathy reli eves, and renders human suffering. 

Please register here:  bit.lyEE21Harris

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ee-lasanaharris_0323/

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