0 the ability to understand and share other people’s feelings and problems. -- การเข้าใจความรู้สึกของผู้อื่น
In a cosmopolitan society suitable objects of empathy are available ad lib.
Goals for future research include determining the ways in which empathy is emotion-specific and dependent on overt or covert perception.
It confers on the various perspectives on empathy only a specious nominal unity.
It may be that the addition of sympathy, in the primitive sense of emotional contagion, to perspective taking is sufficient to constitute empathy.
And while she addresses them with empathy, she cannot give them voice, for they have never learned to speak for themselves.
Many respondents showed tremendous empathy for ex-combatants and emphasised that they would not normally commit atrocities.
Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expression, which triggers empathy).
In the present study we assess the third component, empathy, by children's self-repor ts of affective response to social stimuli.
