Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be socializing people into becoming more individualist rather than empathic, research has uncovered the existance of “mirror neurons” which react to emotions in others and then reproduce them.
Putting Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes
How to Test Your Empathy
Empathy comes more naturally to some than to others.
Are You Suffering From Empathy Deficit Disorder?
How to heal your EDD.
Mind Reading
We’re all street-corner psychics.
How to Be a Better Mind Reader
The ABCs of reading another’s emotions.
Empathy, Mindblindness, and Theory of Mind
Do people with autism truly lack empathy?
