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Too early for a neuropsychology of empathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Hank Davis
Hank Davis
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canadahdavis@uoguelph.ca
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Abstract

To date, a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship has done little to clarify either the why or the how of empathy. Preston & de Waal (P&deW) attempt to remedy this, although it remains unclear whether empathy consists of two discrete processes, or whether a perceptual and motor component are joined in some sort of behavioral inevitability. Although it is appealing to offer a neuroanatomy of empathy, the present level of neuropsychology may not support such reductionism.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 32 - 33
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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