Empathic people have more friends: Empathic abilities predict social network size and position in social network predicts empathic efforts
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Empathic people have more friends: Empathic abilities predict social network size and position in social network predicts empathic efforts
The social brain hypothesis explains the evolution and function of social cognitive abilities in terms of maintaining extensive social relationships. To extend those findings we explored the role that social emotional abilities play in human sociality, and investigated how empathic abilities shape the social network. In line with the social brain hypothesis the findings show that dispositional ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Networks
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0378-8733
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2017.01.004