How interpersonal power affects empathic accuracy: Differential roles of mentalizing versus mirroring?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Bombari, Dario ^a,b   Schmid Mast, Marianne ^a,b   Brosch, Tobias ^b   Sander, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion recognition; Empathic accuracy; Interpersonal sensitivity; Mentalizing; Mirroring; Power

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMPATHIC ACCURACY; EMPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTERPERSONAL POWER; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALIZING; MIRROR NEURON; MIRRORING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84933678694     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00375     Document Type: Article

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