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Is Empathy Simply an Extension of Sympathy? Responses to Child Abuse Prevention Messages.
- Source :
- Conference Papers -- International Communication Association; 2005 Annual Meeting, New York, NY, p1-19, 19p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- The article proposes that sympathy responses and empathy responses to health communication content are a function of two distinctive processes. While sympathy draws upon a person's awareness of another person's perspective, empathy is an emotional response that emphasizes a viewer's own experience of the feelings of another person.
- Subjects :
- SYMPATHY
EMPATHY
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
EMOTIONS
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Conference Papers -- International Communication Association
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 18655399