Adversity, emotion recognition, and empathic concern in high-risk youth.

Little is known about how emotion recognition and empathy jointly operate in youth growing up in contexts defined by persistent adversity. We investigated whether adversity exposure in two groups of youth was associated with reduced empathy and whether deficits in emotion recognition mediated this a...

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Main Authors: Jodi A Quas, Kelli L Dickerson, Richard Matthew, Connor Harron, Catherine M Quas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5524326?pdf=render