AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Being able to imagine what emotions a person is likely to be feeling (even when you don’t actually know) is called empathy. Empathy helps us care about others and build good friendships and relationships. It guides us on what to say and how to behave around someone who is feeling strong emotions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow affect, glibness, manipulation and callousness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

Detailed explanation-4: -Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional (or affective) empathy, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy.