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Affective empathy, also called emotional empathy, [27] is the ability to respond with an appropriate emotion to another's mental states. [26] Our ability to empathize emotionally is based on emotional contagion: [27] being affected by another's emotional or arousal state. [28] Affective empathy can be subdivided into the following scales: [26] [29]
Empathy-altruism is a form of altruism based on moral emotions or feelings for others. Social exchange theory represents a seemingly altruistic behavior which benefits the altruist and outweighs the cost the altruist bears.
Based on findings from neuroimaging studies, de Vignemont and Singer proposed empathy as a crucial factor in human communication: "Empathy might enable us to make faster and more accurate predictions of other people's needs and actions and discover salient aspects of our environment."
Empathy quotient (EQ) is a psychological self-report measure of empathy developed by Simon Baron-Cohen and Sally Wheelwright at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. EQ is based on a definition of empathy that includes cognition and affect.
Emotional intelligence (EI), also known as emotional quotient (EQ), is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.High emotional intelligence includes emotional recognition of emotions of the self and others, using emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, discerning between and labeling of different feelings, and adjusting emotions to adapt to environments.
Pain empathy is a specific variety of empathy that involves recognizing and understanding another person's pain.. Empathy is the mental ability that allows one person to understand another person's mental and emotional state and how to effectively respond to that person.
On the one hand, under the negative state relief model, the ultimate goal of helping is to relieve bystander's negative mood, thus, pro-social behaviours are viewed as the results of helper's selfishness and egoism. On the other hand, some disagree with this stance, and think that empathy, other than negative states, leads to helping behaviours.
In psychology, empaths (/ ˈ ɛ m p æ θ /; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθ (εια) (empáth(eia)) 'passion') are people who have a higher than usual level of empathy, called hyperempathy. [1] While objective empathy level testing is difficult, tests such as the EQ-8 have gained some acceptance as tests for being empathic.