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Understanding Emotional Empathy vs. Cognitive Empathy
Emotional empathy involves feeling a sense of resonance, whether it's motor resonance, resonance for pain, or other emotions like sadness, anger, and joy, which leads to an overlap between self and other emotionally. This empathy is based on shared experiences and emotions. In contrast, cognitive empathy is like detective work where one tries to understand what someone else is thinking, focusing more on intellectual understanding rather than shared emotions.