The empathy-altruism association and its relevance to health care professions

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-400

  Burks, Derek J ^a,c   Youll, Lorraine K ^a   Durtschi, Jayson P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Empathy; Helping; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859575288     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.3.395     Document Type: Article

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