empathy

Psychological identification of the feelings, thoughts or attitudes of others, or experience of the agency

Imagination is due to objects as natural objects and artwork, emotions and attitudes that exist in themselves.

1900 to 1905; Greek empátheia emotion equivalent to <em-em-2 + path - (Greek basic victim) + empátheia emotion + -eia -ia; German Einfühlung currently meaning translation

C20: Empathy's emotion, passion, intention from Greek language Einfühlung rendering, literally: emotion; see en-2, -pathy

In 1903, Einfühlung from Germany (from "ein" to "+" Fühlung "feel"), created by the German philosopher Rudolf Lotze (1817-1881) in 1858, the Greek empathia "passion, emotional state" En "in" (see en- (2)) as a translation + tragic "feel" (see tragic) The term of appreciation in art appreciation theory refers to the ability of a viewer to project his / her personality on the observed subject depends on.

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I call the first oneself sympathy, universal sympathy or great sympathy. Empathy starts with ourselves. why? Our life is very short. They are heartbeats. They are snowstorms. A child laughing by soaking a toe in a river. See you! - to go. We used to be dust, water, starlight. There is enough time to inform us, understand the people we love, hug them, and actually see them. To fight our erroneous self, for the sake of life, even to do so many things

Most people think sympathy is simply to understand others, or to confuse with sympathy. But psychologists distinguish between two major empathies, recognition and emotion. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand the mental state of others, emotional sympathy is the ability to respond to emotional state of others with appropriate emotion. For example, if you see someone falling down and tearing your jeans, the empathy of experiencing recognition may involve yourself into problems and you may think that other people are "awkward" Please puzzle them. There is also a desire for compassion who wants to help them then.

Significant sympathy - Effective empathy - not an abstract mood or presence. On the contrary, effective interpersonal empathy is a series of actions that affect others. Specifically, empathy is a habit of understanding, reacting, a sensitive and thoughtful experience. Pay attention to the two aspects of empathy: not only to understand others in our own mind but also to guarantee our other understanding through our actual reaction . As we will see, the second part makes ineffective sympathy - some vague abstract emotions - an effective empathic secret spice, thereby effectively improving the results of communication and relationships It is to do. (Please see definition empathy for details.)