When the Two Sides of Empathy Fall Out of Balance

Shalev and Uzefovsky make some interesting distinctions between different forms of empathy. Here is ChatGPT's distillation of their text: Empathy is usually discussed as though people simply possess more or less of it. Ido Shalev and Florina Uzefovsky argue that this misses an important distinction. Cognitive empathy is the capacity to understand what another person is feeling, while emotional…