The Many Faces of Empathy: Parsing Empathic Phenomena through a Proximate, Dynamic-Systems View of Representing the Other in the Self

By Stephanie D. Preston, Alicia J. Hofelich. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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2. Jacky T. Thomas
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Citations in the corpus

• Positive Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: A Neglected Link (2016, methodology): “Thus, we use the term in a subjective, self–other overlapping sense (Preston & Hofelich, 2012) of perceiving another person’s positive affect, activating a similar positive affective state in the observer.”
• Association of Personal Distress With Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction Among Clinical Social Workers (2013, background): “It is significant to note that empathy researchers consistently emphasize the need for intentional management of empathy to avoid or modulate personal distress, with particular mention of the risks to helping professionals (Batson et al., 1987; Davis, 1983; Decety & Lamm, 2009; Decety & Meyer; Decet”