Social Interaction pivots on empathy and is often described as its “binding force”. Empathy in general is an interaction between any two individuals, with one experiencing and sharing the feeling of the other. Humans are social animals, in an age where machines are learning to think like us (Humans), emotions help us stand out.

Empathy needs complex cognitive activity in most animals (Ex: elephants and comfort dogs) although humans need to process far complex social cues but we convince ourselves to just sympathize instead. Then the question arises, what limits us to empathize? What are the factors that contribute to such behavior?

There are two flavors of empathy, Affective Empathy and Cognitive Empathy. Affective Empathy maps to our feelings where we mimic the expression (facial, tactile or speech) to extend comfort to individuals in concern. Cognitive Empathy, on the other hand, helps us decode others emotions and their cause of occurrence.

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Arukah Tsur
Awesome article and well written. Can one develop selective empathy? Say you empathize with animals, rather than with people in the same type of situation?
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mlourdesbermudez
This topic is very interesting, there is always more empathy for your pet because it is part of your family.
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Nani
Sometimes I think we get more understanding from pets, they are very intuitive, much more than people.
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Estrella
Empathy is a quality that we must all cultivate, of course sometimes we are selective when we empathize, but I consider that although sometimes it is difficult for us to be empathic with some people and animals, we must put ourselves in the shoes of others
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sofibrav
The feeling of empathy predominates in your post, that is very striking to me, since many times he may be absent, he is like the student who never goes to class.
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Lety Zambrano Cartaya
The human being is selective by nature, so I liked your publication. Empathy first and foremost is what makes us human
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leninJM
Excellent post sometimes you need to be more empathetic and understand the other side and not just leave because of what we think but try to see things as a whole
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Carmen Vidal
Hello, I really liked your publication, empathy is a quality that we should all cultivate, of course we are sometimes selective when empathizing, but I think that although we sometimes struggle to be empathetic to some people and animals, we must put ourselves in the shoes of others
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bloguerouniversal
Palisate with other people is the golden rule in life, when we understand and put ourselves in the shoes of others we make this a better world
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fanny
I think your writing is good and of course it is very important to tie it to be able to understand each other with others thank you very much for sharing it.
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Ingeborgenzwerm
Good evening. I know better than anyone how important it is to grow up with empathy.
I just got enough to survive. Actually with everything: Just enough. Except.
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Ali
What a nice post to raise awareness about these issues so important to many thanks for sharing it I hope to read more about this later
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Daniel
Empathizing is a very important part that human beings must possess in order to understand other people with their feelings
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rockstar
this article on empathy is very interesting because it is always important to get along with the people around us and put yourself in the shoes of others.
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Gollo
How good content as you say a world without empathy is a world without politeness very well said thanks for sharing it.
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Arshi
Nice post!! Hope you are doing good. Keep posting.. This blogs looks informative. Have a good day enjoy.. keep going on.
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Dewaputra
Empathy has always been an interesting subject, and still is. Unfortunately lots of people lack the ability or rather application of empathy,
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Sadaf W.
Great Content. I find this Blog really informative. Thanks for sharing. Keep making and posting your Contents. Have a good day ahead
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