Assessing a New Dimension of Empathy: Empathic Anger as a Predictor of Helping and Punishing Desires

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 301-325

  Vitaglione, Guy D ^b   Barnett, Mark A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Empathy; Helping; Punishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345016925     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026231622102     Document Type: Article

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