2020, Sarah Jaquette Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet, page 107:
And hyper-empathy about others' suffering can get in the way of our ability to function.
2021, Imi Lo, The Gift of Intensity: How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense Person, unnumbered page:
Factors contributing to hyper-empathy can be both nature and nurture.
2022, Douglas Robinson, The Behavioural Economics of Translation, unnumbered page:
This is too much empathy, obviously–a hyperempathy that is strikingly similar to the overwhelming flood of other people's emotions described by MT synesthetes like Amanda.
2023, Davida Hartman, Tara O'Donnell-Killen, Jessica K. Doyle, Maeve Kavanagh, Anna Day, Juliana Azevedo, The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirmative Approach, page 54:
Despite this, research to date has largely ignored the Autistic experience of hyper-empathy.
2023, Sarah O'Brien, So, I'm Autistic: An Introduction to Autism for Young Adults and Late Teens, pages 57-78:
Autistic people can experience the whole spectrum of empathy from hypo-empathy (low empathy) to hyper-empathy (high empathy).
2024, Essy Knopf, Neurodivergent Game Plan: Cheat Codes for Empowered Living, unnumbered page:
Hyper-empathy not only motivates their [autistics'] involvement but also enhances their ability to make meaningful and significant contributions to these causes.
