Individual differences in ocular level empathic accuracy ability: The predictive power of fantasy empathy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-71

  Lee, Sherman A ^a   Guajardo, Nicole R ^a   Short, Stephen D ^b   King, William ^a  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathic accuracy; Empathy; Eyes test; Fantasy; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952012192     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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