Comment: Basic Empathy and Complex Empathy
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- 24 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Emotion Review
- Vol. 4 (1) , 81-82
Abstract
In my short commentary, I dwell on the distinction between basic and complex empathy, and suggest that a basic perception-based form of empathy might point to the existence of a type of social understanding that is more direct and more fundamental than the types of social cognition normally addressed by simulation theory and theory theory.Keywords
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