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Empathy

One definition of empathy as an ability to see the logic of somebody else's perspective without embracing it.

According to another definition, empathy can be cognitive and emotional. Most people can experience both, and in fact do in some combination. Emotional empathy is when we feel somebody's emotion without fully comprehending it (somebody is crying and we feel sad). Cognitive empathy is when we understand why somebody feels a certain way (the logic of their perspective) without necessarily feeling the same emotion. 

If a person A tells us: "I feel this way" but we don't feel the same way we them, an empathic response would be to try recalling when we were in a situation similar to what the person A is in now and recalling the feeling we felt. As a side note, Stanislavsky's method is based on the same idea as well. 

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        • Literal vs. nonliteral communication
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