Ganczarek J, Hünefeldt T, Olivetti Belardinelli M. From "Einfühlung" to empathy: exploring the relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience.
Cogn Process 2018;
19:141-145. [PMID:
29766344 PMCID:
PMC5976702 DOI:
10.1007/s10339-018-0861-x]
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Abstract
Is there a relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience? This question is motivated not only by the fact that historically experiences of both kinds have often been accounted for in terms of "empathy", the English translation of the German term "Einfühlung", but also by the fact that some contemporary theories refer to mechanisms underlying both aesthetic and interpersonal experience. In this Editorial introducing the special section titled "From 'Einfühlung' to empathy: exploring the relationship between aesthetic and interpersonal experience", we briefly sketch these two motivations and the relationship between the different mechanisms that have been associated with both aesthetic and interpersonal experience.
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