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Various kinds of empathy as revealed by the developing child, not the monkey's brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Philippe Rochat
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 [email protected]

Abstract

The comparative study of empathy should be based on the developmental taxonomy of vicarious experiences offered by the abundant literature on infants and children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. Comparative research on the topic should refer to the various kinds of empathy emerging in an orderly fashion early in human development.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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