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Similarity versus familiarity: When empathy becomes selfish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Elias L. Khalil
Elias L. Khalil
Affiliation:
Behavioral Research Council, American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA 01230 elk@aier.org http://www.brc-aier.org
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Abstract

Preston & de Waal conflate familiarity with similarity in their attempt to account for empathy. If distinguished, we may have at hand two different kinds of empathy: egocentric empathy and empathy proper.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 41
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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