Cognitive Empathy

To be clear, you allso ferentiate two versions of ympathy. Thereis the cognitive ampathy of simply understanding another person's experience and then there's the emotional contagion version which we're talking about. As you are permeable to their suffering in a way that makes you suffer also. And sometimes we call this mind reading, or theory of mind, or social intelligence. It's neither good nor bad. It's a tool. If you sam want to make the a better place m and help people, help your family, help others, you can't do it unless you understand what people want,.What affects people, what are people's interests are, what they believe