"Empathy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
| Descriptor ID |
D004645
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.752.355 F01.752.543.500.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Empathy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Empathy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Empathy" by people in Profiles.
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Cox SS, Kearns AM, Woods SK, Brown BJ, Brown SJ, Reichel CM. The role of the anterior insular during targeted helping behavior in male rats. Sci Rep. 2022 02 28; 12(1):3315.
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Cox SS, Reichel CM. Current rodent models for the study of empathic processes. Behav Pharmacol. 2021 04 01; 32(2&3):96-111.
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Lauerer JA. Caring for Nurses. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2020 Jul/Aug; 26(4):339.
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Vaizer R, Aslam S, Pearson WG, Rockich-Winston N. What does it mean to be a physician? Exploring social imaginaries of first-year medical students. Int J Med Educ. 2020 Mar 27; 11:76-80.
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Gehrer NA, Duchowski AT, Jusyte A, Schönenberg M. Eye contact during live social interaction in incarcerated psychopathic offenders. Personal Disord. 2020 11; 11(6):431-439.
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Loper PL. Trauma Surgery. JAMA. 2020 Mar 10; 323(10):929-930.
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Cox SS, Reichel CM. Rats display empathic behavior independent of the opportunity for social interaction. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020 06; 45(7):1097-1104.
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Vanstone M, Neville TH, Clarke FJ, Swinton M, Sadik M, Takaoka A, Smith O, Baker AJ, LeBlanc A, Foster D, Dhingra V, Phung P, Xu XS, Kao Y, Heels-Ansdell D, Tam B, Toledo F, Boyle A, Cook DJ. Compassionate End-of-Life Care: Mixed-Methods Multisite Evaluation of the 3 Wishes Project. Ann Intern Med. 2020 01 07; 172(1):1-11.
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Sherrill WW, Lawson KN, Bednar HS. The Act of Listening Well: Improving Communication Skills through Bibliotherapy. Health Commun. 2020 12; 35(14):1837-1840.
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Eckland NS, Huang AB, Berenbaum H. Empathic accuracy: Associations with prosocial behavior and self-insecurity. Emotion. 2020 Oct; 20(7):1306-1310.