Lol good one! Channeling Tina Turner [1] this morning, are we? Anyway, empathy is a bit more than a secondhand emotion. For the person who gives it, there is a relaxation of personal boundaries that allows the emotion to leak through. read more
The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. read more
Affective empathy, also called emotional empathy: the capacity to respond with an appropriate emotion to another's mental states. Our ability to empathize emotionally is based on emotional contagion: being affected by another's emotional or arousal state. read more