From Science to Parliament: How Empathy Became a Political Concept in Finland by Martin Pettersson

“…Politicians talking about empathy, while drawing on the scientific roots of the concept in psychology, still apply it rhetorically as if empathy were another word for sympathy, albeit in an improved, rational form. Parliamentary debates display how politicians use empathy to oscillate between numerous perceived dichotomies, such as nature and nurture, or individual and collective, depending on the rhetorical situation and without scientific precision. …”
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The Book of Ruth as intra-biblical critique on the Deuteronomic law by Georg Braulik

“…The historical prejudice of the 'community law' against the Moabites, refusing them admission to the 'assembly of Yahweh' (Dt 23:4-7), is disproved (throughout the whole book, especially in Rt1), by a counter-story aimed at promoting sympathy (against Neh 13:1-3). Through the reinterpretation of the prohibition sympathy (against Neh 13:1-3). …”
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Characters in hypno teaching and neuroscience: an overview by Achmad Setya Roswendi, Ahmad Khoiri, Denok Sunarsi

“…Student characters are motivation, self-efficacy, empathy, and sympathy for others. the contribution of the research is great hope for the life of the nation in the future in realizing a golden generation of character.…”
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Идентификация и образ адресата в интернет-соболезнованиях by Andrzej Narloch

“…The selection of appropriate vocabulary plays a vital role in writing internet condolence letters as it is indirectly connected with expressing sympathy, support and understanding. In addition, the form of addressing the recipient often determines the right reception of a condolence letter. …”
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SEISMIC RESPONSE OF THE OSCILLATORY SYSTEM ON THE GROUND RIGID HALF CIRCULAR PLATFORM by ZOU NiXian

“…In this paper,the method of wave function series,the plane wave expansion and Newtonian dynamics equation were used to study the seismic response of the oscillatory system under the disturbance of the out-of-plane incident wave,and the variations of the relative displacement of the mass to the ground along with the disturbance frequency,incident angle are investigated,the numerical results of the given example show that the existence of the phenomenon of sympathy,and accord with the conclusion of vibration mechanics.…”
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All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries by Michael Fuchs

“…As I show, the monstrous bears embody human anxieties, but they also invite human sympathy, as human beings have turned them into monsters.…”
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L'image de la Guerre civile espagnole dans la bande dessinée entre 1936 et 1975-II by Michel Matly

“…In other European countries, scarce comics also mostly back up Francoist thesis, and sympathy for the former Spanish Republic only may be met in American comics.…”
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ATTITUDES OF VIETNAMESE CONFUCIANS TOWARD BUDDHISM: A SURVEY OF BUDDHIST EPITAPHS IN THE LE AND NGUYEN DYNASTIES by Sy Dong Le

“…Our aim is to gain insight into three aspects of the attitude of Confucians toward Buddhism: The extent of Confucian involvement in the creation of Buddhist epitaphs, the level of sympathy expressed toward Buddhism by Confucians, and the expression of Buddhist thought in the spiritual life of the Vietnamese, as revealed by the inscriptions. …”
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Ewosṭateans at the Council of Florence (1441): Diplomatic Implications between Ethiopia, Europe, Jerusalem and Cairo by Samantha Kelly

“…It further proposes that the monks’ participation in the Council of Florence was part of the Ewosṭateans’ larger strategy of pressuring Ethiopian authorities to adopt their own religious positions, at a time when the king’s sympathy for their views was not yet clear; that the Council of Florence highlighted Ethiopian tensions with the Coptic patriarch in a way that furthered the Ewosṭateans’ goals; and that subsequent events suggest that their participation in the Council did indeed contribute to their full incorporation in the Ethiopian Church, and possibly to King Zära Ya‘ǝqob’s interest in continued European diplomacy.…”
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The Underground Railroad and the politics of narration in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…While the plotline is governed by a chain of sympathy relying on a reinterpretation of the antislavery principle of moral suasion, notably embraced by William Lloyd Garrison in the 1830s, the characterization of the enslaved fugitives as heroic rebels emphasizes the necessity of active and martial resistance to bondage, a strategy which gained prominence among abolitionists in the 1850s. …”
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España y el golpe de estado contra De Gaulle by Karima Aït Yahia

“…Salan received the active support of a group of Falangistas, and as demonstrated by our analysis of the major newspapers of the time, also had the sympathy of a part of public opinion. Franco's government, just like part of the press, took a hesitant attitude and did not express itself clearly. …”
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Assembling Reading and Writing in the Face of Loss: Christa Couture’s How to Lose Everything and Dakshana Bascaramurty’s This Is Not the End of Me by Lola Artacho-Martín

“…Following Rita Felski, reading is said to ignite a process of “recognition” (23) which might be paralleled to the self-discovery process which writing may achieve. Sympathy and mutual identification arise and bring readers’ and writers’ identities closer, creating an intersubjective space where health and illness assemble their relations. …”
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles du roman à l’écran : les ambiguïtés du point de vue by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Indeed, Hardy’s narrators, at least in his late fiction, are tantalisingly ambiguous, and tend to act in two highly contradictory ways : appealing to the reader’s sympathy and pity for the plight of the protagonist, while simultaneously undermining this involvement through the critical or ironical interventions of the obtrusive narrator. …”
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An Analysis of Social-Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Education Process by Shela Dian Damayanti, Syafrimen Syafril

“…Research results show that social emotional competence in early childhood are social emotional competence (establishing positive relationships with peers, have self-confidence, and collaboration with other people), self-regulation (learn to regulate one's behavior and attention and managing emotions), prosocial behavior (help and entertain others and collaborate with peers), and emotional social behavior (imitate, rivalry, sympathy, empathy, social support, negativism, damage, collaboration, and thinking about yourself). …”
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The Digital Nature of Gothic - Lars Spuybroek John Ruskin by Asena Soyluk, Mustafa Dallı

“…He examined 3 of these 6 characteristics and analyzed them in the chapter titled with “The Digital Nature of Gothic” in his book “The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design”. …”
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Working-class youth participation in climate action: networks, civic experience, and equity by Rasha Naseif, Isabelle Haddad, Paul Almeida

“…For larger climate action initiatives to overcome the barriers of participation, linking to specific pools of sympathy in civil society that value economic equality may provide a mass base of support for policies consistent with just transition perspectives.…”
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« To see beyond the horizon of mere selfishness » : l’horizon moral dans les romans de George Eliot by Benjamine Toussaint

“…Sight and vision are clearly linked in George Eliot’s novels and so is the notion of sympathy since Lydgate compares the idea of the mind shrinking and expanding with that of « a systole and a diastole » thus implicitly referring to the beating of the heart.…”
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Russia`s Cultural Diplomacy in the Current Geopolitical Context by Alina STOICA, Ana ORJUHOVSCHI

“…The use of this soft power, which complements traditional foreign policy strategies, is aimed at strengthening relations with partner countries, countering negative narratives or attracting/maintaining sympathy with states where the state in question has political, economic, etc. interests. …”
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The World's Evangelical Alliance and the Spanish Civil War by F Hale

“…This was by no means a matter of ideological sympathy for the socialism of the Madrid regime, but reflected the Evangelical Alliance's traditional support of the Protestant churches in Spain, whose hard-won freedom, it was believed, would be threatened by a Nationalist victory and the restoration of Roman Catholicism as the official religion of the realm. …”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…The crisis would ultimately lead to open warfare, but many Americans were optimistic that international commerce and common sympathy might overcome religious differences.  This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular conversion narratives, two of the three demonstrating how even despotic slaveholders could learn to embrace commerce and sentiment.  …”
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