Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach (Social Psychology) - Softcover

Davis, Mark H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813330017 ISBN 13: 9780813330013

Publisher: Westview Press, 1996

Synopsis

Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has been carried out by social and personality psychologists.Davis' approach is explicitly multidimensional. He draws careful distinctions between situational and dispositional ?antecedents? of empathy, cognitive and noncognitive ?internal processes,? affective and nonaffective ?intrapersonal outcomes,? and the ?interpersonal behavioral outcomes? that follow. Davis presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. This book will be of value in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, nad moral development.

About this title

Synopsis:

Offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research. Davis approach is explicitly multidimensional, and he presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. Valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, and moral development. }Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has been carried out by social and personality psychologists.Davis approach is explicitly multidimensional. He draws careful distinctions between situational and dispositional antecedents of empathy, cognitive and noncognitive internal processes, affective and nonaffective intrapersonal outcomes, and the interpersonal behavioral outcomes that follow. Davis presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. This book will be of value in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, nad moral development. }

About the Author:

Mark H. Davis is associate professor of psychology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813330017
• ISBN 13: 9780813330013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276