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Jean Decety and William Ickes (eds): The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2009, 264 pp, $40.00

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Usher, C. Jean Decety and William Ickes (eds): The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Clin Soc Work J 39, 212–214 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-011-0327-4

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