Neural Activity During Social Signal Perception Correlates With Self-reported Empathy [PDF]
, 2013 Empathy is an important component of human relationships, yet the neural mechanisms that facilitate empathy are unclear. The broad construct of empathy incorporates both cognitive and affective components.
D'Esposito, Mark +4 more
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Medical students’ empathy during the COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional study
International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023 Several authors have underlined the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health in several populations, including medical students, such as increases in anxiety, depression and burnout symptoms.
Jean-Marc Triffaux +2 more
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Friend vs. Foe: Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Women With Different Hormonal States
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Empathy is crucial for social functioning as well as social coherence. It can be influenced by modulatory factors such as familiarity and liking (i.e., emotional closeness).
Ann-Christin Sophie Kimmig +7 more
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Stability of empathy among undergraduate medical students: a longitudinal study at one UK medical school. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Empathy is important to patient care. The prevailing view is that empathy declines during university medical education. The significance of that decline has been debated.This paper reports the findings in respect of two questions relating to ...
Benson, John A +3 more
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The Empathy Imbalance Hypothesis of Autism: A Theoretical Approach to Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Autistic Development [PDF]
, 2009 There has been a widely held belief that people with autism spectrum disorders lack empathy. This article examines the empathy imbalance hypothesis (EIH) of autism.
Smith, A
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Empathy and Depression Among Early Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Parental Support
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Early adolescence is a period of development of emotional competence, but also of increasing vulnerability for the onset of depressive symptoms. While literature underscored that empathy promotes social relationships and psychological well-being over the
Emanuela Calandri +4 more
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Preschoolers' Empathy Profiles and Their Social Adjustment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Preschoolers face new challenges in their social life: the development of social and emotional abilities in order to have positive relationships with peers and adults.
Poline Simon, Nathalie Nader-Grosbois
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Socio-Emotional Functioning and Face Recognition Ability in the Normal Population [PDF]
, 2010 Recent research indicates face recognition ability varies within the normal population. To date, two factors have been identified that influence this cognitive process: the age and gender of the perceiver.
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Emotion regulation moderates the association between empathy and prosocial behavior. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Theory and evidence suggest that empathy is an important motivating factor for prosocial behaviour and that emotion regulation, i.e. the capacity to exert control over an emotional response, may moderate the degree to which empathy is associated with ...
Patricia L Lockwood +2 more
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Empathy and Theory of Mind in Multiple Sclerosis: A Meta-Analysis
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Studies have shown that MS disrupts several social cognitive abilities [including empathy and theory of mind (ToM)].
XiaoGuang Lin +7 more
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