ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2019
Dissociating Empathy From Perspective-Taking: Evidence From Intra- and Inter-Individual Differences Research.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 171 citations in OpenAlex.
- Empathy in Adults with Acquired Brain Injury: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of Discriminative Detection Abilities of Social Cognition Measures for the Diagnosis of the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia: a Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Do I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Watching Together, Yet Feeling Apart: Interpersonal Neural Synchronization as a Marker of Symptom Severity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder During Naturalistic Viewing.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Dark Personality, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Convicted Offenders.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation in mother-child dyads is associated with interbrain synchrony during imagined shared emotional experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Incidental Fear on Empathy Towards In-Group and Out-Group Pain.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond Technical Skills: The Value of Perspective-Taking in STEM Education.CBE life sciences education · 2025Article
- Childhood abuse and neglect are differentially related to perceived discrimination and structural change in empathy-related circuitry.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Performing a task with a friend does not change semantic processes but preparation: a social N400 and CNV event-related potential study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Actions and feelings in sync: exploring the relationship between synchrony and empathy in children's dyadic musical interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of chronic empathic stress on synaptic efficacy, as well as short-term and long-term plasticity at the Schaffer collateral/commissural- CA1 synapses in the dorsal hippocampus of rats.Metabolic brain disease · 2024Article
- Feedback matters: EEG correlates of empathy involved in the naturalistic communication of emotions.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Facilitating Access to Mental Health Services: A Stakeholder-Driven Improvement of the Children and Young People (CYP) as One Referral Platform.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Connected in Bad Times and in Good Times: Empathy Induces Stable Social Closeness.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Disrupted cognitive and affective empathy network interactions in autistic children viewing social animation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Influence of transient emotional episodes on affective and cognitive theory of mind.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Risk factors for internalizing symptoms: The influence of empathy, theory of mind, and negative thinking processes.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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Abstract
Humans have the capacity to share others' emotions, be they positive or negative. Elicited by the observed or imagined emotion of another person, an observer develops a similar emotional state herself. This capacity, empathy, is one of the pillars of social understanding and interaction as it creates a representation of another's inner, mental state. Empathy needs to be dissociated from other social emotions and, crucially, also from cognitive mechanisms of understanding others, the ability to take others' perspective. Here, we describe the conceptual distinctions of these constructs and review behavioral and neural evidence that dissociates them. The main focus of the present review lies on the intraindividual changes in empathy and perspective-taking across the lifespan and on interindividual differences on subclinical and clinical levels. The data show that empathy and perspective-taking recruit distinct neural circuits and can be discerned already during early and throughout adult development. Both capacities also vary substantially between situations and people. Differences can be systematically related to situational characteristics as well as personality traits and mental disorders. The clear distinction of affect sharing from other social emotions like compassion and from cognitive perspective-taking, argues for a clear-cut terminology to describe these constructs. In our view, this speaks against using empathy as an umbrella term encompassing all affective and cognitive routes to understanding others. Unifying the way we speak about these phenomena will help to further research on their underlying mechanisms, psychopathological alterations, and plasticity in training and therapy.
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