Empathy Across the Adult Lifespan: Longitudinal and Experience-Sampling Findings

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 753-765

  Grühn, Daniel ^a   Rebucal, Kristine ^b   Diehl, Manfred ^c   Lumley, Mark ^b   Labouvie Vief, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

Author keywords

age differences; cohort effect; empathy; experience sampling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249110724     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014123     Document Type: Article

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