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The Perception-Action Model of empathy and psychopathic “cold-heartedness”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Linda Mealey and
Stuart Kinner
Linda Mealey
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN 56374 lmealey@csbsju.edu http://employees.csbsju.edu/lmealeySchool of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072 Australia stuart@psy.uq.edu.au http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/~stuart
Stuart Kinner
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072 Australia stuart@psy.uq.edu.au http://www.psy.uq.edu.au/~stuart
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Abstract

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The Perception-Action Model of empathy (PAM) is both sufficiently broad and sufficiently detailed to be able to describe and accommodate a wide range of phenomena – including the apparent “cold-heartedness” or lack of empathy of psychopaths. We show how the physiological, cognitive, and emotional elements of the PAM map onto known and hypothesized attributes of the psychopathic personality.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002, pp. 42 - 43
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press