Fan empathy as a response to athlete transgressions

Sport has the capacity to intimately engage fans, deliver intensely emotional experiences, and create attachments to athletes and teams. This connection can be threatened by a number of actions or incidents, including scandals, and fans may engage in a range of behaviors to protect their identification. The purpose of this study is to explore and explicate the concept of fan empathy and illuminate the processes that fans engage in that lead to an empathetic response. Using data from online discussion forums and in-depth interviews, the authors examined empathy in the context of athlete misbehavior and indiscretions. Results provide evidence for the concept of fan empathy as both a cognitive and emotionally focused response, extending the current knowledge of fan behavior. Further, the findings reveal five sensemaking processes that facilitate an empathetic response in the context of inappropriate athlete behavior. This research has implications for sport managers seeking to manage and maintain relationships with fans, including in the face of actions or behavior that might threaten fan identification and association with the sport entity.     

Empathy towards people of different race and ethnicity: Further empirical evidence for the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy

The present study examined the generalizability of the factor pattern, structural parameters, and latent structure of a multidimensional hierarchical model of ethnocultural empathy in males and females. The Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE) (Wang et al., 2003) was administered to a sample of 610 Italian undergraduates to examine the generalizability and reliability of its factor structure across gender, the psychometric properties and the validity of the scale. Two models were tested through multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA): a confirmatory factor-analytic model that hypothesized a multidimensional model of ethnocultural empathy; and a structural equation model that proposed a multidimensional, hierarchical structure with global ethnocultural empathy as a superordinate construct that explained the covariances among the subdomains of the SEE. Both models satisfied multiple criteria for goodness-of-fit with the data. Full metric invariance of factor loadings and factor covariances, and partial invariance of error variances across gender for the four-factors model were supported. Scale reliability was also satisfactory, showing good internal consistency. As regard scale validity, evidence was found for a positive moderate association with a measure of general empathy and a negative high association with a measure of prejudice. Implications are discussed.     

初探英语诗歌"意境-移情型"教学法

随着英语教学对英语文化渗透和文化交际能力的强调,英语诗歌已成为高校大学英语选修课程和专业必修课程,行之有效的英语诗歌教学法也成了诸多教者探讨的热门话题。英语诗歌文学意境和音乐意境丰富性的特点决定了诗歌教学要借助诸多手段引导学生品味诗歌的意境,产生共鸣。"意境-移情型"教学法的实施给学生提供了一个较为有效的学习方法。     

“译味”翻译解读

本文吸收国内外相关理论成果,并结合翻译实例探讨语言文字意味翻译问题。在介绍语言文字意味的一般概念和对译味进行对比分析的基础上,作者提出译味的本质是中国情感生命体,进而联系实际具体讨论译味的几项重要内容：＂近似＂的目标要求,文本基调的主宰作用,对原文的风格适合,＂人化文章＂的重点在＂人＂,以及译味的根本途径是移情作用等。     

The Benefits of Using Sociodrama in the Elementary Classroom: Promoting Caring Relationships Among Educators and Students

In the current age of academic rigor, standards and accountability, the fostering of caring relationships in the classroom may not always be a priority. Expressing care for another person is a skill that can be taught and nurtured through a supportive educational environment. Sociodrama encourages each of its participants to develop self-confidence and self-expression through risk-taking and exploration in activities that explore real life personal feelings and situations. By using sociodrama as a means for exploring issues in the classroom it is possible to celebrate participants’ individuality and to create caring and nurturing relationships among educators and students. This article examines the research describing the benefits of including sociodrama in the elementary curriculum.     

道德情感教育中的"同情"与"移情"

“同情”和“移情”是两个既相联系又有区别的概念，对“同情”和“移情”的研究是道德情感研究发展的一条主线．本文分析了从“同情”到“移情”所代表的道德情感研究重心向认知的偏移对道德情感教育的理论和实践的发展所产生的影响．     

教师的教育特质:共情

共情,被人本主义心理学家认为是影响教育进程和效果的最关键的特质。教师作为学生的引路人,要想真正地建立与学生的良好关系,深入学生的心灵,对学生起帮助与引导作用,就必须具备共情这一教育特质。     

关于"信"的翻译标准的语言哲学解读

应用语言哲学中的意义理论和理解与解释理论,可以获得对严复的"信"的翻译标准的更深层解读。"信"的翻译标准要求译文忠实原文文本的意义。文本的意义是复杂的、多层面的。对文本意义的理解是一个历史的过程,理解无法克服历史的局限性,绝对的文本理解是不存在的。理解的相对性决定了"信"的标准的相对性。"信"的相对性不否认"信"作为翻译标准的合理性。     

Teaching with ignorance: Questions of social justice,empathy, and responsible community

This paper explores the limitations of empathy for the formation of community, particularly within social justice education. I begin with a discussion of the major tension within the idea of community — that it is founded at once on commonality and difference. Building in particular upon the work of Emmanuel Levinas, the paper articulates an understanding of community as a signifying encounter with difference that is not founded upon knowledge about the other, but upon a being-for and feeling-for the other. Focusing upon the explicitly educational commitment to working out forms of relationality conducive to establishing community and social justice across social differences, I ask how might teaching with ignorance, as opposed to teaching for empathy, bring us closer to the being-for others that marks our ethical engagement with other people and engenders our responsibility to the collective?