(Zaki 2019)

The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

by Jamil Zaki

Appendiz A: What is Empathy? (p179)

"Most of us think we know what "empathy" is, yet we often mean different things when we use it. Psychologists have (sometimes heartily) debated its definitions for decades. But despite our quibbling over details, most empathy researchers agree on the big picture. In particular, empathy is not really one thing at all. It's an umbrella term that describes multiple ways people responds to one another, including sharing, thinking about, and caring about others' feelings. These pieces, in turn, go by several names

Sharing

• Experience Sharing

• Emotional Empathy

• Personal Distress

Thinking About

• Mentalizing

• Cognitive Empathy

• Theory of Mind

Caring About

• Empathic Concern

• Motivational Empathy

• Compassion"