title: Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder.
abstract: We sought to characterize the cognitive and affective empathic abilities of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). While controls showed higher cognitive as compared with affective empathy scores, the BPD group demonstrated the opposite pattern. These results suggest that a dysfunctional pattern of empathic capacity may account for behavioral difficulties in BPD.
authors.affiliation: The Emotion-Cognition Research Center, Shalvata Mental Health Care Center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel.
authors.forename: Hagai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harari
authors.forename: Simone G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Shamay-Tsoory
authors.forename: Milli
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ravid
authors.forename: Yechiel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Levkovitz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D004645:Empathy / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D056345:Theory of Mind; D055815:Young Adult