Empathy, social psychology, and global helping traits

Philosophical Studies

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-275

  Miller, Christian B ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Batson; Character traits; Compassion; Doris; Empathy; Harman; Helping; Situationism; Social psychology; Virtue; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849083867     PISSN: 00318116     EISSN: 15730883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-007-9185-x     Document Type: Article

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