Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes

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Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations (2014, background): “Walter (2012) suggests a low road and a high road to empathy.”
The Interpersonal Functions of Empathy: A Relational Perspective (2017, background): “emphasized the neuropsychological foundations of empathy in an effort to describe the intrapersonal processes involved in empathic experience (e.g., De Vignemont & Singer, 2006; Walter, 2012).”
The neuropsychology of consumer behavior and marketing (2018, background): “…psychological trait or state composed of empathetic concern (an affective reaction), taking the perspective of others (a largely cognitive theory of mind process), and self- other differentiation (a process related to identity and psychological distress, e.g., Decety & Lamm, 2006; Walter, 2012).”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “Empathy – the ability to understand and share in the internal states of others – is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that includes a number of functional processes, including emotion recognition, emotional contagion, and emotion priming (for recent reviews, see Decety and Jackson, 2006; Singer”