The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition
Empathy, the ability to vicariously experience and to understand the affect of other people, is fundamental for successful social-cognitive ability and behaviour. Empathy is thought to be a critical facilitator of prosocial behaviour and is disrupted in a number of psychiatric and neurological disor...
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Elsevier
2016
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