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Empathy requires the development of the self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

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/

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.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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