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Dissociating the ability and propensity for empathy
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Neuroimaging suggests psychopaths have reduced vicarious activations when simply witnessing pain but less so when asked to empathize. This inspired us to distinguish an ability from a propensity to empathize. We argue that (a) this ability-propensity distinction is critical to characterize empathy in psychiatric disorders such as psychopathy and autism, (b) that costly helping might be best predicted by the propensity for empathy and (c) suggest how social neuroscientists can start exploring this distinction.
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- Authors
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-04
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 163-166
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2103015783
- Cited by
- 172
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 16.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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