Empathic accuracy: When does the perceiver-target relationship make a difference?

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 179-199

  Hancock, Melanie ^a   Ickes, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathic accuracy; Intersubjectivity; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347510736     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407596132002     Document Type: Article

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