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CONCEPT
empathy
The act of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and or experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.

Classified under Emotion
Definition contributed by TDavis about ten months ago.

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NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy
about one year ago

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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it; the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner, also the capacity for this.

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Definition contributed by BGregory about two years ago:
the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it; the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner, also the capacity for this. (from merriam-webster.com)

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about three years ago:
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2011-08-14 TDavis: TDavis updated the definition for empathy
2011-05-16 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for empathy. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/empathy]
2011-05-12 NPicchetti: Added new topic to discussion
2010-04-30 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for empathy. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/empathy]
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