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Title

Empathic accuracy / edited by William Ickes.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors

Ickes, William John

Description

viii, 352 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

""What does she want?" "How does he feel about that?" "What are they trying to accomplish?"" "We ask ourselves these kinds of questions every day, in nearly every social encounter we experience." "Empathic inference, or "everyday mind reading," is a form of complex psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the subjective experience of others. In a single, comprehensive volume, Empathic Accuracy introduces two innovative methods for objectively measuring this key dimension of social intelligence and summarizes the most up-to-date research on the topic. Each chapter presents a mix of cutting-edge theory and research that offers essential insights into how and why people sometimes succeed, and sometimes fail, in their attempts to understand each other." "Integrating state-of-the-art research on a topic of wide-ranging significance, Empathic Accuracy is an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers, and students in personality and social psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, communication, developmental psychology, and marriage and family studies."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Interpersonal Relations
• Interpersonal relations
• Social perception
• Insight
• Intuition
• Empathy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Communicative genes and the evolution of empathy / Ross Buck and Benson Ginsburg -- Physiological aspects of emotional knowledge and rapport / Robert W. Levenson and Anna M. Ruef -- The development of empathic accuracy / Nancy Eisenberg, Bridget C. Murphy, and Stephanie Shepard -- When women's intuition isn't greater than men's / Tiffany Graham and William Ickes -- Personality and empathic accuracy / Mark H. Davis and Linda A. Kraus -- Why do friends understand each other better than strangers do? / C. Randall Colvin, Dawne Vogt, and William Ickes -- Empathic accuracy in close relationships / Geoff Thomas and Garth J. O. Fletcher -- Managing empathic accuracy in close relationships / William Ickes and Jeffry A. Simpson --
• (cont.) Empathic accuracy and marital conflict resolution / Victor L. Bissonnette, Caryl E. Rusbult, and Shelley D. Kilpatrick -- Studying empathic accuracy in a clinically relevant context / William Ickes, Carol Marangoni, and Stella Garcia -- Automatic and controlled empathy / Sara D. Hodges and Daniel M. Wegner.

ISBN

1572301619 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96032416^

OCLC

35151238

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library