Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder

  • Hagai Harari
  • , Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory*
  • , Milli Ravid
  • , Yechiel Levkovitz
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We sought to characterize the cognitive and affective empathic abilities of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). While controls showed higher cognitive as compared with affective empathy scores, the BPD group demonstrated the opposite pattern. These results suggest that a dysfunctional pattern of empathic capacity may account for behavioral difficulties in BPD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)277-279
Number of pages3
JournalPsychiatry Research
Volume175
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Feb 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Empathy
  • Theory of mind

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