Distress and empathy: two qualitatively distinct vicarious emotions with different motivational consequences.

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Journal of Personality

• Publication date

  1987-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1987.TB00426.XPMID 3572705
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