About Jean Decety Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Empathy: From Bench to Bedside and coeditor of The Social Neuroscience of Empathy, both published by the MIT Press. Books by Jean Decety Empathy From Bench to Bedside edited by Jean Decety The Social Neuroscience of Empathy edited by Jean Decety & William Ickes