𒀭Aco on Nostr: I’m psychology, there are three types of empathy: Emotional/affective empathy, ...

I’m psychology, there are three types of empathy: Emotional/affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and compassionate empathy.

Emotional/affective is what most think of when they think of empathy: Feeling bad when someone else feels bad, good when they feel good etc.

Cognitive empathy is about understanding logically what someone else is feeling. It doesn’t require you to feel it at all.

Compassionate empathy is the tendency to act on your empathy to help others.

I have almost no emotional empathy. I have extremely high cognitive and compassionate empathy.