# The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

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- Book: [The Social Neuroscience of Empathy](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-decety/the-social-neuroscience-of-empathy) ([The Social Neuroscience of Empathy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-decety/the-social-neuroscience-of-empathy.md))
- Authors: [Jean Decety](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-decety), [William Ickes](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-ickes)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6251-599-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2011-01-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience. In recent decades, empathy...