Using Empathy to Improve Intergroup Attitudes and Relations

Recently, social psychologists have given considerable attention to the possibility that empathy can be used to improve intergroup attitudes and relations. For this possibility to bear practical fruit, it is important to know what is meant by empathy because different researchers use the term to ref...

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Published in:Social issues and policy review 2009-12, Vol.3 (1), p.141-177
Main Authors: Batson, C. Daniel, Ahmad, Nadia Y.
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