Empathy

In the essay, “Am I Blue?” from Living by the Word in 1986 by Alice Walker, Walker explains how animals can display similar emotions to that of humans. She brings attention to her readers on how to understand that an animal can experience the same emotions as humans do. Walker compares her emotions to a […]

Empathy and sympathy are both concepts associated with feeling and understanding other people which are oftentimes interchanged and misused (Coulehan & Block, 1999; Eisenberg & Strayer, 1987; cited in Mathiasen, 2006). As opposed to sympathy, which pertains to a state wherein one is affected by another person’s condition causing the former to feel emotions similar […]

Different authors have varying definitions of empathy and have described its nature and applications to different fields such as nursing, medicine, research and education. Empathy is an important characteristic that should be reflected in medical practice for the benefit of both the patient and the medical professional. The difficulty lies on the elusive nature of […]

Empathy means physical affection or partiality is commonly defined as a person’s ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly and deliberately the emotion of another person as well. Since the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively […]