Empathy: Measures, theories and applications under review;Empatía: Medidas, teorías y aplicaciones en revisión

Anales de Psicologia

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 284-298

  Fernández Pinto, Irene ^a   López Pérez, Belén ^a   Márquez, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; Measure; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149098489     PISSN: 02129728     EISSN: 16952294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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