8 Signs You Have Highly Developed Cognitive Empathy
by Janey Davies
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020
3 types of empathy: emotional, compassionate, and cognitive empathy
Emotional empathy
This is the definition of empathy we are all familiar with. All empathy is an ability to put oneself in another person’s shoes. Empathy is the capacity to imagine what another person is feeling.
Emotional empathy is seeing this perspective from an emotional point of view. So we feel the grief and sorrow of others. We suffer the same physical symptoms, mirroring their emotions, having the same feelings as them.