Dissociable Systems for Empathy

Empathy and Fairness

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 134-141

  Blair, R J R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociable systems for empathy; Emotional expressions and social response reversal (SRR); Empathy and partially dissociable neurocognitive systems; Facial expressions of emotion; Theory of mind ToM

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549038423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470030585.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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