Abstract. Empathy is defined as an individually varying but stable personality trait. Contrary to this statement we proposed a model (Georgi, Petermann & Schipper, 2014) in which individual empathic abilities are continuously modulated throughout life, ...
Abstract. Research on empathy has increased rapidly during the last decades but brief assessment methods are not easily available. The aim was to develop a test for affective empathic reactions which would be simple to translate into ...
Abstract: Research in psychology and social neuroscience distinguishes between dispositional and situational empathy for the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. Yet, the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) is one of the few brief tests ...
Abstract. Cognitive and affective empathy have diverging relations to social–emotional adjustment. However, particularly during adolescence, these associations are not thoroughly understood. Using the Basic Empathy ...