<p>Empathy is a topic that has been addressed extensively by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>Frans de Waal</strong></a>; he has been studying primates intensively and draws parallels between them and us. Especially the differences and commonalities between humans, bonobos and chimps is interesting. Check him out.</p>

<p>Scientific American (a non-peer reviewed scientific journal I'm reading a lot), had a <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2018/09-01/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">special issue recently</a> (<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2018/09-01/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Sci Am</em>, September 2018</a>) on why humans set themselves apart from other animal species. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tomasello" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tomasello</a> has an interesting contribution there on the evolution of empathy and its role in the domination of mankind. An interesting read for sure.   </p>

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Okay, sounds great! Thank you so much!
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<p>I am an economist, and almost all work on shame (very little work has been done on empathy in economics, we typically just jump to some form of altruism) has simply been on observed outcomes. That being said, I was wondering if there are any good reference text or papers (big researcher names are welcome) on more of the nature of such emotions.</p>

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thank you for the question. what do you mean with shame being on observed outcomes? are you referring to outcomes as the "economic journals and research papers"?
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Papers/Resources on the source/process of shame and empathy
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# Papers/Resources on the source/process of shame and empathy

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-03)

I am an economist, and almost all work on shame (very little work has been done on empathy in economics, we typically just jump to some form of altruism) has simply been on observed outcomes. That being said, I was wondering if there are any good reference text or papers (big researcher names are welcome) on more of the nature of such emotions.

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> **username_1**: thank you for the question. what do you mean with shame being on observed outcomes? are you referring to outcomes as the "economic journals and research papers"?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-07-03. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

Empathy is a topic that has been addressed extensively by [**Frans de Waal**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal); he has been studying primates intensively and draws parallels between them and us. Especially the differences and commonalities between humans, bonobos and chimps is interesting. Check him out.

Scientific American (a non-peer reviewed scientific journal I'm reading a lot), had a [special issue recently](https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2018/09-01/) ([*Sci Am*, September 2018](https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/2018/09-01/)) on why humans set themselves apart from other animal species. [Tomasello](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tomasello) has an interesting contribution there on the evolution of empathy and its role in the domination of mankind. An interesting read for sure.

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> **username_0**: Okay, sounds great! Thank you so much!  

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