
Empathy
A Social Psychological Approach
Mark H. Davis(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-0-8133-3001-3 (ISBN)
Description
Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has been carried out by social and personality psychologists.Davis' approach is explicitly multidimensional. He draws careful distinctions between situational and dispositional ?antecedents? of empathy, cognitive and noncognitive ?internal processes,? affective and nonaffective ?intrapersonal outcomes,? and the ?interpersonal behavioral outcomes? that follow. Davis presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. This book will be of value in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, nad moral development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-3001-3 (9780813330013)
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Person
Mark H. Davis is associate professor of psychology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Content
1. History and Definitions 2. Evolutionary Origins of Empathic Capacities 3. Assessment of Individual Differences in Empathy 4. Origins of Individual Differences in Empathy 5. Non-Affective Outcomes 6. Affective Outcomes 7. Altruism and Helping Behavior 8. Aggression and Antisocial Behavior 9. Social Relationships and Social Behavior 10. Where We Have Been and Where We Should Go