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Introduction: critical issues in the study of empathy, N.Eisenberg andJ.Strayer. Part 1 Historical and theoretical perspectives: history ofconcept of empathy, L.Wispe; evolutionary bases of empathy, R.Plutchik;the contribution of empathy to justice and moral judgment, M.L.Hoffman;empathy and psychotherapy, J.Marica; commentary on part 1, E.Straub.Part 2 Empathy across the life span: empathy and emotionalunderstanding - the early development of empathy, R.A.Thompson; empathyand related responses in children, M.A.Barnett; adults' emotionalreactions to the distress of others, C.D.Batson et al; commentary onpart 2, P.Mussen. Part 3 Current issues and empirical findings: genderand age differences in empathy and sympathy, R.Lennon and N.Eisenberg;affective and cognitive perspectives on empathy, J.Strayer; mentalhealth, temperament, family and friends - perspectives on children'sempathy and social perspective taking, B.K. Bryant; parental empathyand child adjustment/maladjustment, N.D.Feshbach; empathy, sympathy,and altruism - empirical and conceptual links, N.Eisenberg andP.Miller; motor mimicry as primitive empathy, J.B.Bavelas; commentaryon part 3, B.S.Moore. Part 4 Methodological issues: picture-storyindices of empathy, J.Strayer; self-report ratings of empathic emotion,C.D.Batson; critique of comparable questionnaire methods in use toassess empathy in children and adults, B.K.Bryant; somatic indices ofempathy, R.F.Marcus; physiological indices of empathy, N.Eisenberg etal. Conclusions: empathy viewed in context, J.Strayer and N.Eisenberg.