Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Background: Recent models of eating disorders (EDs) have proposed social and emotional difficulties as key factors in the development and maintenance of the illness. While a number of studies have demonstrated difficulties in theory of mind and emotion recognition, little is known about empathic abi...

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Main Authors: Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Amy Harrison, Kate Tchanturia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00102/full