Empathic mediation of helping: A two-stage model

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1978, Pages 752-766

  Coke, Jay S ^a   Batson, C Daniel ^b   McDavis, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cognitive perspective taking ; subsequent empathic emotional response, motivation to help someone in need, college students

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000827552     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.36.7.752     Document Type: Article

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