The influence of affective empathy and autism spectrum traits on empathic accuracy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Aan Het Rot, Marije ^a   Hogenelst, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE EMPATHY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM QUOTIENT; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BALANCED EMOTIONAL EMPATHY SCALE; BERKELEY EXPRESSIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; COGNITIVE EMPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHIC ACCURACY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84902596940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098436     Document Type: Article

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