On the distinction of empathic and vicarious emotions

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Paulus, Frieder M ^a   Müller Pinzler, Laura ^a   Westermann, Stefan ^a   Krach, Sören ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Anchoring; Empathic emotion; Empathy; Mentalizing; Mirroring; Vicarious embarrassment; Vicarious emotion

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHIC EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROSCIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VICARIOUS EMOTION;

EID: 85184624051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00196     Document Type: Article

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