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SUBMITTER: Olderbak S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4076670 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olderbak Sally S Sassenrath Claudia C Keller Johannes J Wilhelm Oliver O
Frontiers in psychology 20140701
Empathy refers to the thoughts and feelings of one individual in response to the observed (emotional) experiences of another individual. Empathy, however, can occur toward persons experiencing a variety of emotions, raising the question of whether or not empathy can be emotion specific. This paper discusses theoretical and empirical support for the emotion specificity of empathy. We present a new measure, the Emotion Specific Empathy questionnaire, which assesses affective and cognitive empathy ...[more]