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Empathy-based Distress

Empathy-Based Distress is a psychological construct denoting the emotional and cognitive strain experienced by individuals, particularly caregivers or helping professionals, as a result of deeply resonating with the traumatic experiences of others, distinguishing it from personal traumatic exposure or burnout by its origin in vicarious empathic engagement.

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Distress and Empathy: Two Qualitatively Distinct Vicarious Emotions with Different Motivational Consequences

C. Daniel Batson, Jim Fultz, Patricia A. Schoenrade · Journal of Personality · 1987 · 1.2K citations

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Relation of sympathy and personal distress to prosocial behavior: A multimethod study.

Nancy Eisenberg, Richard A. Fabes, Paul Miller et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1989 · 625 citations

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How Do Distress and Well-being Relate to Medical Student Empathy? A Multicenter Study

Matthew R. Thomas, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Jefrey L. Huntington et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2007 · 617 citations

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From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social developmental neuroscience account

Jean Decety, Meghan L. Meyer · Development and Psychopathology · 2008 · 595 citations

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Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Jean Decety · PLoS ONE · 2013 · 541 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Jim Fultz

    Arizona State University, United States

    5 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. NE
    Nancy Eisenberg

    Arizona State University, United States

    4 publications · 840 citations

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  3. DC
    Daniel C. McFarland

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

    3 publications · 87 citations

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  4. JS
    João Sedoc

    New York University, United States

    3 publications · 61 citations

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  5. HP
    Holger Pfaff

    University of Cologne, Germany

    3 publications · 326 citations

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Institutions

326

  1. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    7 h-index

    23 publications

    4.6K citations

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    595 citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    3 h-index

    14 publications

    254 citations

  5. Mayo Clinic in Arizona

    Scottsdale, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    671 citations

  6. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    258 citations

  7. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    68 citations

  8. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. PLoS ONE

    5 publications · 948 citations

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    4 publications · 115 citations

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  3. Scientific Reports

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  4. Patient Education and Counseling

    4 publications · 349 citations

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  5. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

    PSPB · 3 publications · 309 citations

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