Empathic responses to social targets: The influence of warmth and competence perceptions, situational valence, and social identification.

Accounts of empathy distinguish between cognitive (attribution of mental states to a social target) and emotional (sharing of emotions with a social target) empathy. To date, however, little is known about whether and how (interactions between) person perceptions, situational characteristics, and th...

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Main Authors: Tatjana Aue, Stephanie Bührer, Boris Mayer, Mihai Dricu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248562