The many faces of empathy: Parsing empathic phenomena through a proximate, dynamic-systems view of representing the other in the self

Emotion Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-33

  Preston, Stephanie D ^a   Hofelich, Alicia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

emotional contagion; empathy; perception action; perspective taking; self other overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856480828     PISSN: 17540739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1754073911421378     Document Type: Article

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