empathy
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Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, often expressed through gestures like hugging or other forms of comfort. It matters because it allows people to connect with and support others who are experiencing difficulty or pain.
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- Definitions
- Distinctions between empathy and related concepts
- Classification <span class="anchor" id="Affective and cognitive"></span>
- Empathic anger
- Empathic distress
- Measurement
- Self-report measures
- Development
- Ontogenetic development
- Individual differences
- Sex differences
- Environmental influences
- Biological basis
- Genetics
- Neuroscientific basis of empathy
- Evolution across species
- Evolution of cooperation
- Impairment
- Autism and controversy
- Psychopathy
- Other conditions
- Effects
- Benefits of empathizing
- Empathy and power
- Empathy and violence
- Influence on helping behavior
- Conflict Resolution
- Selective empathy
- Gullibility
- Manipulative use
- Compassion fatigue
- Empathic accuracy
- Therapeutic interventions
- Disciplinary approaches
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Phenomenology
- History
- Psychotherapy
- Business and management
- In educational contexts
- In intercultural contexts
- In fiction
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
alt=A small child hugs an older, injured child|thumb|Hugging is a common display of empathy
Empathy is generally described as the ability to perceive another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. However, there are other (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others. Empathy is often considered to be a broad term, and can be divided into more specific concepts and categories, such as cognitive empathy, emotional (or affective) empathy, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy.