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A complete theory of empathy must consider stage changes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Michael Lamport Commons  and
Chester Arnold Wolfsont
Michael Lamport Commons
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA 02115 Commons@tiac.net http://www.tiac.net/~commons/
Chester Arnold Wolfsont
Affiliation:
Department of Counseling, Cohoes High School, Cohoes, NY 12047 Chetsgym@hotmail.com
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Abstract

A sequential, hierarchical stage model of empathy can account for a comprehensive range of empathic behaviors. We provide an illustrative table, “Stages of Empathy,” to demonstrate how increasingly complex empathic behaviors emerge at each stage, beginning with the infant's “automatic empathy” and ending with the advanced adult's “coconstruction of empathetic reality.”

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 30 - 31
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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