A three-person model of empathy

Emotion Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-91

  Breithaupt, Fritz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blocking of empathy; empathy and decision making; empathy and self loss; side taking and empathy; social empathy; three people scenario of empathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856468934     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911421375     Document Type: Article

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