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9 - Sophisticated Concern in Early Childhood

from IV - Fellow Feeling and the Development of Prosociality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

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Amrisha Vaish
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Neil Roughley  and
Thomas Schramme
Neil Roughley
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
Thomas Schramme
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University of Liverpool
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Forms of Fellow Feeling
Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency
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Print publication year: 2018

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