Perspective Taking and Ampathy

When you take some s perspective, the act of doing that forces you to merge your self concepts in a way that it asks you to imagine what it's like to be me. In doing so, you're thinking about me, but in terms of yourself. And because you like yourself, most people like themselves and have positive self esteem, that act of thinking about us simultaneously takes positive affect that you have for yourself and spreads it to the other person. There is also research showing that practising prospective taking makes us more emphatic, more appreciative of what other people are going through. So prospective taking creates ampathy, and ampathy creates helping.