| L. Wispe, "The Distinction Between Sympathy and Empathy: to Call Forth a Concept, a Word is Needed", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 50/2, pp. 314-321, 1986. |
....was introduced to the scientific community by David Hume and Adam Smith more than one century ago. Lauren Wispe discussed that empathy and sympathy are two different psychological processes. In order to make a clear distinction between sympathy and empathy Wispe gives the following definitions ([Wis86]) ffl Sympathy is a way of relating . Sympathy refers to the heightened awareness of the suffering of another person as something to be alleviated. It is defined in terms of negative emotions. It is the psychological process of awareness of another person s pain and tendency to relieve it. ....
Lauren Wispe. The distinction between sympathy and empathy: to call forth a concept, a word is needed. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(2):314--321, 1986.
....provide a step towards experiential social understanding. The following section gives a brief summary. 2 Empathy Empathy is discussed as a way of knowing in a social situation involving two agents when one self tries to comprehend the positive and negative experiences of another self ( Wispe, 1986 ] Brothers ( Brothers, 1989 ] considers empathy a biological phenomenon, an emotional communication between humans, a form of reading social signals. This suggests that empathy is a social, interpersonal means of mind reading by pushing oneself into a state of engagement in other ....
L. Wispe. The distinction between sympathy and empathy: to call forth a concept, a word is needed. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(2):314--321, 1986.
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L. Wispe, "The Distinction Between Sympathy and Empathy: to Call Forth a Concept, a Word is Needed", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 50/2, pp. 314-321, 1986.
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Lauren Wispe. The distinction between sympathy and empathy: to call forth a concept, a word is needed. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(2):314-321,
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