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Empathy requires the development of the self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Child Development, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Lewis@umdnj.edu http://www2.umdnj.edu/iscdweb/
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Abstract

Two major problems exist in studying development: Similar behaviors do not need to reflect the same underlying process, different behaviors can reflect the same process; earlier behaviors do not necessarily lead to later behaviors. Empathy, rather than social contagion, is supported by different processes; contagion supported by prewired species behavior, empathy by cognitions, in particular, the cognitions about the self – a meta-representation.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 42
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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