TY - JOUR AU - Wagner, Ullrich AU - Handke, Lisa AU - Walter, Henrik PY - 2015 DA - 2015/02/03 TI - The relationship between trait empathy and memory formation for social vs. non-social information JO - BMC Psychology SP - 2 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - To navigate successfully through their complex social environment, humans need both empathic and mnemonic skills. Little is known on how these two types of psychological abilities relate to each other in humans. Although initial clinical findings suggest a positive association, systematic investigations in healthy subject samples have not yet been performed. Differentiating cognitive and affective aspects of empathy, we assumed that cognitive empathy would be positively associated with general memory performance, while affective empathy, due to enhanced other-related emotional reactions, would be related to a relative memory advantage for information of social as compared to non-social relevance. SN - 2050-7283 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-015-0058-3 DO - 10.1186/s40359-015-0058-3 ID - Wagner2015 ER -