No Words for Feelings? Not Only for My Own: Diminished Emotional Empathic Ability in Alexithymia

The present study has been designed to disentangle cognitive and emotional dimensions of empathy in a group of mentally healthy and highly alexithymic individuals (ALEX, n = 24) and well-matched controls (n = 26) through questionnaire Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and Multifaceted Empathy Tas...

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Main Authors: Elif Alkan Härtwig, Sabine Aust, Hauke R. Heekeren, Isabella Heuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00112/full