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"The integration of hyper-scanning technology […] allows for the simultaneous capture of brain activity from both the regulator and the target, revealing their neural synchronization (interpersonal brain synchronization, IBS) during interpersonal interactions. […] The cross-individual neural synchronization data provides direct evidence of the neural mechanisms underlying these processes, contributing to the exploration of the neural basis of emotional connection and relationship closeness."

Zhu, T., Zhang, X., Jin, L., Wang, L., & Wang, Y. (2025). Positive resonance: Successful interpersonal emotion regulation facilitated relationship closeness by enhanced inter-brain synchronization. NeuroImage, 307, 121042. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2

"An organized attachment representation may act as a protective factor, preserving interpersonal emotion recognition even in the presence of psychopathology. Conversely, an unresolved attachment constitutes an additional risk factor that exacerbates emotion processing impairments in the context of personality pathology. Attachment representation thus emerges as an active modulator of core emotion processes, with important implications for theory and targeted interventions in personality disorders."

Eilert, D.W.; de Punder, K.; Maerz, J.; Dose, J.; Gander, M.; Mensah, P.; Neubrand, S.; Hinterhölzl, J.; Buchheim, A.

Impathy and Emotion Recognition: How Attachment Shapes Self- and Other-Focused Emotion Processing.

Brain Sci. 2025, 15, 516.

doi.org/10.3390/brainsci150505

We live in an era when you have to explain...#empathy!

#TheRationalNational

#CNN 🤮 Attempts to Make '#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 ' Offencive (Dana Bash is a MORON!)

(We live in an era of fucking stupidity!)

#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸

#SickOfThisShit #ZionaziSTUPIDITY

#ArrestNetanyahu

#JewsSayCeasefire #JewsSayFREEPalestine 🇵🇸

#JewishMuseumShooting: As I'd feared, once again, Jewish pain is weaponised by zionazis and lunatics to attack Palestinians, pro-Palestinian protesters (which includes anti-genocide Jews for Palestinian rights)

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@ardenthistorian.bsky.social
And that's another proof for my believe, humans are "done" as a species and nature "turned their switch" to (self)destruction.
Globally everything hurls out of control.
The tools we developed for societies are meaningless if basic human/animal "instincts" like #empathy ... are failing and egocentric greed takes over.

We KNOW we destroy the environment we depend on to survive too. ..and still continue.
..to kill, to torture, to destroy..
humans are shit

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If you'd like to keep an innocent #bunny alive and bring more comfort to the last days of my 72 yr old elder

Every bit counts

ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds/goal

We have no one to help us
They're cursed to being reliant on me

Very few take the time to listen to MY pain to even understand a bit of what that's like but they want me to labor for them

That's been 95% of my so called friendships

I get to not every has #empathy but some have #compassion so I'm begging for their sake

How self-proclaimed believers have weaponized faith and betrayed the radical compassion at the heart of Jesus’ message.

#ChristianNationalists: Empathy is a sin 😳

“It’s a provocative idea: that #Empathy — that is, putting yourself in another person’s proverbial shoes, and feeling what they feel — is a sin.

The #Bible contains repeated invocations from #Jesus to show deep empathy and compassion for others, including complete strangers.

#Christianity is [reportedly] built around a fundamental act of empathy so radical — Jesus dying for our sins — that it’s difficult to spin as harmful.”

vox.com/culture/413530/what-do

Meet #SocialJustice #AI (#SJAI):

It’s an #LLM that has undergone #PostTraining in #VirtueHacking analysis (#VHA), so that it can help us expose hidden agendas, break cycles of escalation, challenge oppressive systems, foster #empathy, find equitable solutions, and generally #advocate for social #justice.

Have a chat with it and get to know it.

Whilst developed on #ChatGPT this method can enhance any capable LLM.

#AIforGood #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalTheory

medium.com/@Anandavala/introdu

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@mfennvt I'm glad MLB's former "DL" didn't bother you. Same for me, but if it is hard for some disabled people, I support MLB's decision.

Before I was disabled myself , someone asked me (on Twitter at the time) to stop using the word "disabled" to describe a broken-down train on the Ottawa LRT. I apologised, thanked them for bringing it to my attention, and stopped using the word that way.

Courtesy and empathy cost us nothing but create huge benefits.