An emotion-differentiated perspective on empathy with the emotion specific empathy questionnaire

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Olderbak, Sally ^a   Sassenrath, Claudia ^a,b   Keller, Johannes ^a   Wilhelm, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Emotion; Measurement model; Psychometric analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904873827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00653     Document Type: Article

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