On the relative preponderance of empathic sorrow and its relation to commonsense morality

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 131-144

  Royzman, Edward B ^a   Kumar, Rahul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Empathy; Moral; Negative; Positive; Relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007509790     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-118X(00)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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