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A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching PoetryCultivating Empathy: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry: Cultivating Empathy: Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads [In his book The Political Brain, neurologist Drew Westen describes a series of experiments he and his colleagues performed supporting the hypothesis that emotion trumps reason in people’s political views (x–xv). He goes on to describe how, in recent years, conservatives have been much more effective at appealing to voters on an emotional level particularly by creating narratives that appeal to moral values rather than making arguments based on facts or policy. Thus, Westen stresses the importance of creating emotionally compelling narratives for progressive political values. More recently, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has also stressed the need for progressives to do what conservatives have done so effectively in recent years, create and repeat narratives that activate positive emotions toward their worldview and negative emotions toward the worldview of their opposition. At stake, he argues, is nothing less than our democracy (1).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-34298-3
Pages
93 –105
DOI
10.1057/9781137102034_6
Publisher site
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Abstract

[In his book The Political Brain, neurologist Drew Westen describes a series of experiments he and his colleagues performed supporting the hypothesis that emotion trumps reason in people’s political views (x–xv). He goes on to describe how, in recent years, conservatives have been much more effective at appealing to voters on an emotional level particularly by creating narratives that appeal to moral values rather than making arguments based on facts or policy. Thus, Westen stresses the importance of creating emotionally compelling narratives for progressive political values. More recently, cognitive linguist George Lakoff has also stressed the need for progressives to do what conservatives have done so effectively in recent years, create and repeat narratives that activate positive emotions toward their worldview and negative emotions toward the worldview of their opposition. At stake, he argues, is nothing less than our democracy (1).]

Published: Nov 2, 2015

Keywords: Social Responsibility; Mirror Neuron; Fictional Character; Emotional Empathy; Prosocial Attitude

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