In short according to Clara McLaren empathy is:
- Emotional contagion – the ability to feel other people’s feelings.
- Empathic accuracy – the ability to identify what another person is feeling.
- Emotional regulation – mature enough relationship with your own feelings that you can be in the presence of other people’s strong feelings.
- Perspective-taking is the cognitive part of empathy, where you can take other people’s perspectives and understand their beliefs, preferences, plans, goals, and intentions.
- Empathic concern – caring for others. (Displayed by toddlers when they see another crying.)
- Perspective engagement – being able to take effective, compassionate action after you have understood a person’s emotion.
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