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Cognitive empathy gives us the ability to understand another person’s ways of seeing and thinking.
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A darker side of cognitive empathy emerges when someone uses it to spot weakness in others and so takes advantage of them. This strategy typifies sociopaths…
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Empathy depends on a muscle of attention: to tune in to others’ feelings requires we pick up the facial, vocal, and other signals of their emotion.
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Empathy entails an act of self-awareness: we read other people by tuning in to ourselves.
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One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.
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…the more empathic the person who is present with someone in pain, the greater the calming effect.
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…[there is] a subtle force dividing people along otherwise invisible signs of social status and powerlessness: the powerful tend to tune out the powerless. And that deadens empathy.
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…nonacademic ability like empathy typically outweigh…
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If [an] informal leader has strengths in empathy in…
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Economic value will arise instead from the powers of the right brain – creativity, imagination, empathy, and aesthetics.
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