Empathy: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

The Wiley Handbook of Positive Clinical Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 103-123

  Ferguson, Eamonn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied psychology practice; Costs models; Empathizer; Empathy; Pathological altruism; Reputation building; Self to other model of empathy; Society

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015053201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118468197.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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