A new fashion trend at the Republican Convention, 2024.

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   tsmogposted 6 weeks ago

   Some say empathy. Some say cult like behavior. How will it affect voters on November 5th? The science behind empathy.
   
   
   
   Image from In photos: Trump bandage "newest fashion trend" at RNC by Axios (July 18, 2024)
   https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/trump- … end-photos
   
   "Ear bandages are a widely seen accessory at this week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
   
   The big picture: Convention attendees have been paying tribute to former President Trump, who appeared at the event with his large, white bandage on his right ear in his first appearance since Saturday's rally shooting."
   
   ‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy by Association for Psychological Science (Dec 29, 2017)
   https://www.psychologicalscience.org/ob … ce-empathy
   
   "Whether it’s watching a friend get a paper cut or staring at a photo of a child refugee, observing someone else’s suffering can evoke a deep sense of distress and sadness — almost as if it’s happening to us. In the past, this might have been explained simply as empathy, the ability to experience the feelings of others, but over the last 20 years, neuroscientists have been able to pinpoint some of the specific regions of the brain responsible for this sense of interconnectedness."
   
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   Mirroring the Mind
   
   “When we witness what happens to others, we don’t just activate the visual cortex like we thought some decades ago,” said Christian Keysers of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. “We also activate our own actions as if we’d be acting in similar ways. We activate our own emotions and sensations as if we felt the same.”
   
   Through his work at the Social Brain Lab, Keysers, together with Valeria Gazzola, has found that observing another person’s action, pain, or affect can trigger parts of the same neural networks responsible for executing those actions and experiencing those feelings firsthand. Keysers’ presentation, however, focused on exploring how this system contributes to our psychology. Does this mirror system help us understand what goes on in others? Does it help us read their minds? Can we “catch” the emotions of others?"
   
   A somewhat lengthy article, yet very interesting.
   
   Were the participants at the convention demonstrating empathy, loyalty, or ???
   
   Thoughts, criticisms, or accolades?

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