Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species

Decety, Jean, Bartal, Inbal Ben-Ami, Uzefovsky, Florina, Knafo-Noam, Ariel·2016·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2015.0077

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