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Empathy

The ability to understand the feelings of another person.  Being able to put yourself in their position through your own frame of reference is a way to show cognitive empathy.  Feeling something because someone else currently is as well is an example of emotional empathy.
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Eva Silvertant
April 16, 2020
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