Empathy

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Definition:
The ability to identify with another person's emotional state. HGD, Chapter 8, p.188

The ability to relate to some ones emotional status. Whether its anger, sorrow, or joy.

The action of understanding, awareness, sensitivity, and experiencing the thoughts and feelings of another.

Examples:
One child consults another. The one child identifies the others sorrow and shows empathy towards the child.

Analogies:
A person showing empathy to a sad person is like a auto mechanic showing empathy to a broken car. They are similar because just like when a person would comfort a sobbing person, an auto mechanic would try to find the problem with a car and would try to fix the cars problems.

Mnemonics:
E - Empathy M - Makes P - People A - Alike T - Trust H - Honesty Y - Yelling

In the News:
[|Understanding How Children Develop Empathy By PERRI KLASS, M.D.] The capacity to notice the distress of others, and to be moved by it, can be a critical component of what is called prosocial behavior, actions that benefit others: individuals, groups or society as a whole. Psychologists, neurologists and even economists are increasingly interested in the overarching question of how and why we become our better selves. media type="custom" key="23504014"

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