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Smith, Adam – Psychological Record, 2006
This article presents 7 simple models of the relationship between cognitive empathy (mental perspective taking) and emotional empathy (the vicarious sharing of emotion). I consider behavioral outcomes of the models, arguing that, during human evolution, natural selection may have acted on variation in the relationship between cognitive empathy and…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Personality Problems, Empathy, Attribution Theory

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