The Relation of Empathy to Prosocial and Related Behaviors

trast, others have defined empathy as concern for another's posi-tion, or as experiencing an affective response congruent with the other's well being (e.g., Batson & Coke, 1981). Still others have used empathy to refer to a combination of emotional matching and sympathetic responding (e.g., Hoffman, 1984; Mehrabian & Epstein, 1972). ................
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