The Role of Empathic Emotions in Caregiving: Caring for Pediatric Cancer Patients

Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Penner, Louis A ^a,b   Harper, Felicity W K ^a   Albrecht, Terrance L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruistic; Caregiving; Empathic concern; Motivation; Parental caregiving; Pediatric cancer; Resilient children; Selective investment theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921856118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388107.003.0049     Document Type: Chapter

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