Eps 1: Empathy
— Empathy
An analysis from the journal of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews also found that, overall, there are sex differences in empathy from birth, growing larger with age and which remains consistent and stable across lifespan.
Empathy's influence extends beyond relating to other's emotions, it correlates with an increased positive state and likeliness to aid others.
It is possible that impaired cognitive empathy (the capacity for understanding another person's experience and perspective) may account for borderline personality disorder individuals' tendency for interpersonal dysfunction, while "hyper-emotional empathy"[ verification needed ] may account for the emotional over-reactivity observed in these individuals.
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Ronald Lee
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Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share another person's experiences and emotions and to share another person's feelings with them. Cognitive empathy is the ability to "understand" why we feel and act the way we do. Cognitive empathy allows us not only to share an emotional state, but also to combine our feelings and what we know to develop and motivate a profound, holistic appreciation for others.
Research on the emergence of empathetic responses suggests that empathy is not an automated response, but is strongly influenced by interpersonal and contextual factors that influence our behavior and cognition. Empathy, cognitive empathy and other forms of empathy (e.g. empathy for others) are subject to a variety of factors including social, emotional, biological, psychological, social and cognitive.
A good example is that psychologists understand their clients "emotions rationally, but do not necessarily share them in a visceral sense. Cognitive empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand emotions in others. Empathy is understood from the patient's perspective and cognitive empathy from the client's perspective.
Empathy, for example, involves the ability to empathise with the feelings of others, such as fear, sadness, anger and agony.
Many animals show empathy for other animals such as humans, humans and other primates, as well as birds, reptiles and birds.
Day by day, empathy is associated with the practice of compassion, and it is believed to be rooted in the ability to "understand and share feelings," as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. Until recently, neuroscientific models of empathy assumed that people use their emotions primarily to share how someone else feels. A movement imbued with dehumanizing language and feelings has a natural opposite that can counteract its negative effects.
Early developments in this field had philosophical underpinnings, but in 2013, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine asked precisely this question and found some fascinating results.
Historically, the construct of empathy has been understood in two prevailing ways: the first is what others think and feel, and the second is our reaction to the feelings of others. Lipps explains: "This process allows the content of the human mind to become a mirror of the other. How do we know that this is the result of a combination of human psychology, neuroscience, thought psychology and the neuroscience of emotion?
This research focuses on various areas of empathy that are categorized primarily as emotional and cognitive empathy. Empathy in its simplest form is the awareness of other people's feelings and emotions. The reason for this is the ability of the individual to understand what others are experiencing, how they feel and what they think.
It is said that empathy is basically the ability to understand the emotional feelings of others. However, it is also pointed out that at a deeper level, there is the ability to define and respond to the concerns and needs underlying the emotional responses and reactions of others.
The Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale [23] contains a number of different subscales, each of which has its own unique characteristics. This includes a sub-scale that measures the ability to take a perspective, especially to respond to empathetic concerns. Cross-sectional studies on empathy have also produced a wide range of results, such as the Empathic Empathic Evaluation Scale (EES)
A cross-sectional study was conducted on medical students in their respective classrooms [24, 25]. EBS measures empathy as a measure of empathy and empathy and empathy for others.
As an intensively studied topic in psychological research, empathy is the subject of a number of studies in the fields of psychology, psychology and social psychology [24, 25].
More broadly, we can distinguish between two psychological research traditions that investigate phenomena related to empathy. Empathy is a personality trait that refers to the ability to feel and understand what someone else is experiencing. This is currently referred to as empathetic accuracy (to use Hogan's 1969 terminology) and is used in the field of social psychology [24, 25].
Together, these two components of empathy allow us to project ourselves into someone else's shoes and experience the world from a different perspective. Affective empathy is the ability to converge our emotions with those of others [26].
In fact, good cognitive and empathic skills enable psychopathy, and we need to understand what a victim feels when we torture him. Empathy is also a form of compassion that includes concern for another person's suffering and the desire for help. Empathy anchors us in the world around us, not only in our own heads, but also in other people's.