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The key to empathy is listening with understanding

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1. Your friend earned an A on their math test, and they are really excited, so they start smiling and laughing. If you get really excited too, and start smiling and laughing, you could be empathizing with them.

If you would have only said "Good Job" to your friend, you would have been sympathizing with them.

2. If you see your best friend cry, and you start crying too, you are emathizing with them.

If you would have tried to help your friend stop crying, you would have been empathizing with them.

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Are Cortical Neutrons

elp with the ability to immediately and instinctively understand what someone is experiencing

Help people stimulate other people's actions and emotions by observing them

Play a role in empathy because humans "mirror" another's emotions.

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Both involve sensitivity to another person's emotions

Sympathy: feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune

With Sympathy, someone responds to another's emotion, while with empathy, one feels the same as another.

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Empathy: the ability to understand and share feelings with another

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Individuals will have different levels of empathy.

Traits help control how much empathy a person will have.

An individual will empathize more with someone in their social group as oppsed to those in other socail groups.