How Well Can We Assess Our Ability to Understand Others’ Feelings? Beliefs About Taking Others’ Perspectives and Actual Understanding of Others’ Emotions
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02475