Empathic Distress Fatigue Rather Than Compassion Fatigue? Integrating Findings from Empathy Research in Psychology and Social Neuroscience

Pathological Altruism

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Klimecki, Olga ^a   Singer, Tania ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; Empathic concern; Empathic distress; Empathy; Prosocial behavior; Social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921691480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738571.003.0253     Document Type: Chapter

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