TY - CONF

T1 - Stigma and empathy: an organising principle for the continuum of social understanding

AU - Finnerty, Samuel

PY - 2016/9/21

Y1 - 2016/9/21

N2 - Stigma is a universal social phenomenon of significant importance toour understanding of social cognition. Stigma, and in-group out-group distinctions,have been shown to affect perception of emotions, intentions, and actionsof people marked as members of a stigmatized category. Noting the lack of literaturethat conceptually organizes the concepts of stigma and empathy this paperreviews the relevant literature and proposes an organizing principle. This principleis derived from the continuum of social understanding. This principle statesthat the amount, and type, of information available on each point of this continuumenables stigmatization and empathy, to greater or lesser degrees.

AB - Stigma is a universal social phenomenon of significant importance toour understanding of social cognition. Stigma, and in-group out-group distinctions,have been shown to affect perception of emotions, intentions, and actionsof people marked as members of a stigmatized category. Noting the lack of literaturethat conceptually organizes the concepts of stigma and empathy this paperreviews the relevant literature and proposes an organizing principle. This principleis derived from the continuum of social understanding. This principle statesthat the amount, and type, of information available on each point of this continuumenables stigmatization and empathy, to greater or lesser degrees.

M3 - Conference paper

T2 - Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

Y2 - 20 September 2016 through 21 September 2016

ER -