An emotion-differentiated perspective on empathy with the emotion specific empathy questionnaire

Empathy refers to the thoughts and feelings of one individual in response to the observed (emotional) experiences of another individual. Empathy, however, can occur towards persons experiencing a variety of emotions, raising the question of whether or not empathy can be emotion specific. This pape...

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Main Authors: Sally eOlderbak, Claudia eSassenrath, Johannes eKeller, Oliver eWilhelm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00653/full