Empathy

Empathy is generally described as the ability to perceive another person’s perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. However, there are other definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others. Empathy is often considered to be a broad term, and can be divided into more specific concepts and categories, such as cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy.